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Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-26 0d8bae5: Fix capitalization of mail headers


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-26 0d8bae5: Fix capitalization of mail headers
Date: Sun, 20 May 2018 18:29:58 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>>> -The @samp{To}, @samp{Cc}, and @samp{Bcc} fields can appear any number
>>> +The @samp{To}, @samp{CC}, and @samp{BCC} fields can appear any number
>> FWIW, I can't remember seeing "CC:" or "BCC:" in an email message
>> whereas I've seen "Cc:" and "Bcc:" many many times.  So my reaction to
>> the above line would be "Huh?  Why didn't they write `TO` to
>> be consistent?"
> Also, RFC 2822 always uses the capitalized form (the only exception is
> Message-ID).

To clarify: while I do have a personal preference for capitalizing
instead of using allcaps, the only thing I care about is that we either
use "allcaps for all" (i.e. "TO" and "CC") or "capitalize for all" ("To"
and "Cc").


        Stefan



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