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On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 11:46:45AM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> 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.
Now we're talking about language and not logic, though. You have
Grice to deal with. It *would* be correct to say "Subject contained
no lowercase letters".
This is just an example of how logic and language are different.
(And btw, under nonimporting universals it would also be correct
to claim "Subject in all lowercase letters", which is seemingly
contradictory, but not).
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