Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!mp.cs.niu.edu!rickert From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains Subject: Re: Case-sensitive Name Service Routines Message-ID: <1990Sep30.211830.3092@mp.cs.niu.edu> Date: 30 Sep 90 21:18:30 GMT References: <40500002@hpindwa.HP.COM> <700001@gore.com> <2172@sunic.sunet.se> Organization: Northern Illinois University Lines: 32 In article <2172@sunic.sunet.se> eric@sunic.sunet.se (Eric Thomas SUNET) writes: >In article <700001@gore.com> jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore) writes: >>/ comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains / Dan@dna.lth.se (Dan Oscarsson) / Sep 29 '90 / >>> For most normal people (non unix) a letter A is an A independent of case. >>> I think most of you do noy think an A and an a read in a book have different >>> meanings. >>That's not always true. The following phrases have case-sensitive meanings: >> >> the President the president > >If I send snail-mail to the 'president' instead of 'President', does it get Most likely the capitalization will have no influence on whether it is delivered. >delivered? If I send e-mail to him and he's on a Unix host, will it get >delivered? This depends on the mailer flags for the local mailer. If the mailer flags specify changing names to lower case, and the correct name is 'President', nothing will ever be delivered, since the lower case version will never match the correct name. With same flags, but the login id is 'president' it will be delivered regardless of spelling. If the mailer flags preserve case, then the capitalization must be exact for delivery. -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115. +1-815-753-6940