Case sensitive url's are dumb, aren't they?

Sorry if this is off topic as to html itself but I thought, 'cause it was the
media in which it works, that it would be close enough?    

I have a new isp that is set up so a url has to be typed *exactly* as it is in
his server.  I mean, it you type Index instead of index, you won't get the page.
I see this with directories, gifs, etc.   Everything has to match the calling
case...    Isn't that a bit dumb?   I'm probably not seeing the whole picture
here but the isp guy says everything should be done in lower case...  Sure
*would* solve everything if there *wasn't* another case to worry about, but net
fusion, etc. keeps throwing in that big stuff...   

Can someone shed some light on this so I don't blame my isp guy unfairly.  Why
is there case sensitivity and should it/can it be eliminated?   

Floyd Baker 


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