[gopher] Re: meta: item types, etc.

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>]

JumpJet Mailbox wrote:
> I am absolutely, 100%, AGAINST the idea of Upper / Lower case letters indicating different Item Types.  Although this may be acceptable for some computer platforms (upper and lower case letters do have different ASCII values), it is a real annoyance on others.  As protocols must be universal, "case neutrality" should be the only acceptable method.

I am unaware of any current platform that is both capable of TCP 
communication and incapable of making a case-sensitive comparison at the 
protocol level.

Even EBCBDIC platforms can do this.