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John: > 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 McCawley discusses this sort of thing and argues that the most tenable view is that "all" is not itself importing, but that the existence of broda is normally a condition for relevance. --And.