At 09:58 AM 8/29/96 -0500, Igor wrote:
The decision that have just made is not a technical decision, it is a business decision. You just decided that the needs of security outweight the need to be able to deal with 100% of potential customers.
I strongly agree. You've also potentially annoyed a bunch of Europeans, Unicode-speakers, and other users of non-ASCII alphabets. Just because the domain name in somebody's address is case-insensitive (and culturally-insensitive :-) ASCII, that doesn't mean their user name will be also, especially if their _real_ mail system is some ugly proprietary thing like Microso-Cc:PR0FS-HS.400 or if their name is Swedish or Chinese.
..... X.400 ..... /OU=foo/O=bar/C=KREV/ (X.400 may be evil, but it does exist :-)
[ ! is almost dead ] ! is still around, especially for gateways to proprietary mail systems.
You also need to add colon : and maybe comma , . # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts@ix.netcom.com # <A HREF="http://idiom.com/~wcs"> Reassign Authority!