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! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN