! 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. Agreed, the DNS and other systems should be upgraded to 8bit. Unix should also allow / in file names, it can be escaped somehow.