Gil wrote:

>"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.

 

Sure, that's obnoxious. If nothing else, maybe you like reading your email as 
joethel...@whatever.com <mailto:joethel...@whatever.com> . My wife is always 
formatting the user portion of email when I'm setting up a forward and I tell 
her "it doesn't matter".

 

>How would enforcing that RFC have impacted mainframe email?

>Ok.  Someone who habitually runs an editor CAPS ON deserves any

>adverse results.

 

I was thinking of email based on userid-which would naturally have been 
uppercase, but people would perennially have forgotten to uppercase it when 
sending (less of a problem today, with autocomplete) and so mainframe email 
would have gotten a reputation for being "flaky". Of course coupled with your 
first item above, it would have been even worse!


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