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From: dylan@ibmpcug.co.uk (Matthew Farwell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Length of User names
Message-ID: <1991Jun5.170852.7984@ibmpcug.co.uk>
Date: 5 Jun 91 17:08:52 GMT
References: <27070@adm.brl.mil> <1991May31.173152.791@mlb.semi.harris.com> <1991May31.215301.7574@solbourne.com> <1991Jun01.144752.22884@convex.com>
Reply-To: dylan@ibmpcug.CO.UK (Matthew Farwell)
Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.
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In article <1991Jun01.144752.22884@convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
>Most sendmail configurations will accept mail to firstname.lastname
>or firstname_lastname instead of to that person's login.  No fuzzy
>logic involved, though: it has to match the gcos field exactly, 
>modulo case of course.   Why not just tell people to do this?  Finger
>can also help to locate login names.

A mail system I used to use (a home-grown mail system running on a Cyber
180 under NOS) used to (still does as far as I know) support full name
type addresses, ie M.J.Farwell@wherever.  If you sent to a wrong
address, however, it sent back a list of fuzzy matches, ie N.K.Farjel or
something like that.  Now that was quite useful.

Dylan.
-- 
Matthew J Farwell: dylan@ibmpcug.co.uk || ...!uunet!ukc!ibmpcug!dylan
	But you're wrong Steve. You see, its only solitaire.