The un-common-sensical-ness of non-importing ro

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

For reasons that don't matter here, I recently sent myself an email without
a "Subject:" header. It very nearly fell into my spam traps, escaping
with a score of 4.9 (where 5.0 and up is treated as spam). One of the
tests it failed was "Subject [should not be, but is] all in capital letters".

Evidently, the test looks at each letter of the header, and if there are
any non-capital letters, the test is passed forthwith: if the test gets
to the end of the header without detecting a non-capital-letter, it fails.

Now, was it correct to report "Subject all in capital letters" when there
were no characters of any sort in the "Subject:" header? By the non-import
definition of "ro", yes, it was. By common sense and Aristotle, the
report was nonsense.

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