Answering msg from andrew clarke to rowan crowe,
on Saturday January 14 1995 at 19:51

 NM>>>> {at}REPLY: 3:635/727.1{at}FIDOnet 1D8F5675
 ac> ...

 >> I still think however, that changing the capitalisation when
 >> generating ^aREPLY is (a) wrong, and (b) silly (what's the reason
 >> for doing it?).

 ac> It's certainly out-of-spec, that's for sure.  I don't think it's a
 ac> particularly serious issue though; I can't see most current software
 ac> failing because of this.

    I can. What about software which does "true" reply linking by
^aMSGID and ^aREPLY? The programmer may have assumed (quite reasonably, in
this case) that the ^aREPLY string will be exactly the same as the original
^aMSGID string.

 ac> As for being silly... FWIW, I think it's simply trying to perform
"domain
 ac> matching" from the MSGID, which isn't the idea of the FTS-9 spec at all.
 ac> The uppercased serialno looks like just a programming quirk - I've seen
 ac> other programs do this, eg. MacWoof (this is from memory).

    MacWoof used to do other fun things, like use identical ^aMSGID serial
numbers for different messages.

    Back to VFIDO...correct, it should be not be using the ^aMSGID line for
any address information at all. And, since when has "FIDOnet"
(sans quotes) been the correct capitalisation? (-:

Best wishes, Ro.

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