From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-26 0d8bae5: Fix capitalization of mail headers Date: Mon, 21 May 2018 00:15:01 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20180520090853.27430.88055@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20180520090853.BA0E920468@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <87fu2ms8fi.fsf@igel.home> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1526876007 27280 195.159.176.226 (21 May 2018 04:13:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 May 2018 04:13:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 21 06:13:22 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fKcCG-0006xo-6q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 May 2018 06:13:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48727 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fKcEN-0003yn-BJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 May 2018 00:15:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42273) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fKcEH-0003wr-4s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2018 00:15:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fKcEG-0008OO-14 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2018 00:15:24 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:45789) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fKcDv-0008E3-G3; Mon, 21 May 2018 00:15:03 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fKcDt-0007Rf-Dx; Mon, 21 May 2018 00:15:01 -0400 In-reply-to: <87fu2ms8fi.fsf@igel.home> (message from Andreas Schwab on Sun, 20 May 2018 16:33:53 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:225505 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > 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). Let's not write "TO". It would be inconvenient for readers and offers no advantage. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See https://stallman.org/skype.html.