>>> 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
 ac>> it's a particularly serious issue though; I can't see most
 ac>> current software 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.

I would assume that most software that performs reply-linking on the
MSGID/REPLY fields would ignore the case of these fields.

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

That's handy.

 >     Back to VFIDO...correct, it should be not be using the
 > ^aMSGID line for any address information at all.

Indeed.

 > And, since when has "FIDOnet" (sans quotes) been the correct
 > capitalisation? (-:

Is the year 2000 a leap year?

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