On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 4:19 AM, Viktor Dukhovni <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 03:46:49AM +0800, Jeffrey 'jf' Lim wrote: > >> As per subject. >> http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#enable_long_queue_ids says: >> "For safety reasons the vowels (AEIOUaeiou) are excluded from the >> alphabet." In what way are vowels unsafe? >> >> I can see why certain letters might be avoided in order to avoid typos >> (capital 'i' might be mistaken for lowercase 'l', capital 'O' for the >> number '0', etc.), but I'm not seeing how vowels are "unsafe". Could >> somebody explain this to me? > > Unless you're Czech, random strings containing only consonants are > unlikely to accidentally spell out offensive words. >
I see. Well if that's what's meant by "safe"... :} Thanks! > Happy New Year. > happy new year to you too, and to the rest of the list! Thanks for replying on this special day! -jf -- He who settles on the idea of the intelligent man as a static entity only shows himself to be a fool. Mensan / Full-Stack Technical Polymath / System Administrator 12 years over the entire web stack: Performance, Sysadmin, Ruby and Frontend
