Re: Capitalization in header names

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William R. Ward (hermit@bayview.com)
Mon, 11 Nov 1996 17:59:26 -0800


In article <9611112039.AA08456@moe.optics.rochester.edu>, Pamela Greene <pgreene@optics.rochester.edu> writes:

) Paul Bogrow <eeyore@eey.org> wrote:
)) It appears that words following hyphens in auxiliary headers are
)) sometimes capitalized and sometimes not. [...]
))
)) Is there a rule for predicting which is correct, aside from a
)) canonical list of header forms?

) Not yet. :) The various scripts we use have no particular reason to
) prefer one over the other, though I can't guarantee that all the
) other archives and mirrors are equally flexible. If a convention is
) decided upon here, I'll gladly document it in the guidelines.

Well since the real mail/news headers are case-insensitive, I think
the subheaders should be as well. But I do prefer capitalizing each
word, personally.

--Bill Ward
(rec.boats.marketplace; comp.sys.cbm)



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