Re: Case-sensitivity in newsgroup names and message-IDs

In <[email protected]> Russ Allbery <[email protected]> writes:

>"Charles Lindsey" <[email protected]> writes:

>> USEFOR makes it clear that all newsgroups names SHOULD be in LC, but
>> recognizes that some existing ones might have UC in them, in which
>> case offering to NNTP (or to whatever else) exactly what the
>> 'official' name of the group is (as it appears in a checkgroups, if
>> you are lucky enough to be in a hierarchy that publishes those) is
>> likely to succeed (mostly). But USEFOR makes it clear that all _new_
>> groups MUST be LC throughout.
>>
>> So the only thing you are entitled to "expect" is that if you offfer
>> LC names in order to retrieve LC groups, then that will _always_ work.
>> Anything else is problematical, so don't do it.

>The problem is, we don't actually say this anywhere that I can see, and
>historically several NNTP documents have claimed that newsgroup names
>are case-insensitive.  The current NNTP standard says:

I think it is what section 3.1.4 of USEFOR is _trying_ to say (at least,
that is what my analysis was based on). Maybe a little further
word-smithing in USEFOR would help clarifiy things?

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