This one time, at band camp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 12:59:18PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: > > This one time, at band camp, Darren Salt said: > > > I demand that Lars Wirzenius may or may not have written... > > > > > > [snip] > > > > Obfuscation which can easily be reversed by a human, but not so easily > > > > by a > > > > computer, does not render contact information incorrect. If I write my > > > > e-mail address as follows, it's still correct: "My full name is Lars > > > > Ivar > > > > Wirzenius, and you can send me e-mail by taking my initials and putting > > > > them in front of the at sign and iki.fi after it." > > > > > > But is that LIW or liw or Liw or...? :-) > > > > I know it was a joke, but since email is (usually) case-insensitive, it > > won't matter in practice. > > not at all. > > rfc2821 2.4 "The local-part of a mailbox MUST BE treated as case sensitive." > > So, senders should use LIW@ but the MTA at the other end is free to accept > liw@ and Liw@ etc ...
"However, exploiting the case sensitivity of mailbox local-parts impedes interoperability and is discouraged." Hence the '(usually) case-insensitive'. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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