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Subject: Numerical surnames??
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Date: 21 Aug 89 12:18:00 GMT
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I am working on the design of a new X.400 system, and would like
to have advice on a detail.
     
Normally, we will of course put human-readable names in the Surname
field of O/R-names. But in certain exceptional cases, for example
for secret mailboxes, it would be natural for us to take the
internal mailbox number, which is an integer, into the Surname
field.
     
Would anyone advice against this? If so, we could add a character
like M in front of the number.
     
Of course there should not be any risk of mixing up surnames
with X.121 addresses, but some systems may have problem with
wholly numerical surnames?