On Fri, 5 Apr 2019 16:20:31 -0400, Phil Smith III wrote: > >And one of those rare exceptions is itself exceptional: the left-hand part of >an email address (the "lists" in "li...@akphs.com") is theoretically >case-sensitive per the RFC. But sanity prevailed, and nobody but nobody >implements that way (sure would have made mainframe email fun!). So if you're >digging into the RFCs, beware. > "sanity prevailed, and nobody but nobody" still does not suffice to excuse www facilities that willy-nilly convert case of local part of entered email addresses.
How would enforcing that RFC have impacted mainframe email? Ok. Someone who habitually runs an editor CAPS ON deserves any adverse results. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
