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From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
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Subject: does anybody use upper case in mail names on UUCP?
Message-ID: <1785@cbosgd.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 20-Jan-86 23:51:26 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 20 23:51:26 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 22-Jan-86 04:18:40 EST
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, Oh
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We're running into a problem with a BITNET/UUCP gateway.
It seems that many people on BITNET have only upper case
terminals, and send mail to addresses like USER@HOST.UUCP.
It's fair to turn HOST.UUCP into host.uucp for UUCP, but
what about the USER part?

The ARPA convention is that the case on USER is supposed to
be left alone.  This was done because Multics used to be
case sensitive (although I understand it no longer is.)
4.2BSD is also case insensitive, so mail to host!host!USER
is the same as mail to host!host!user.  But I don't think
System V is.

This leaves a person with an upper case BITNET terminal, who
wants to send mail to a System V user, no way to get the
mail through.  Unless the gateway does some magic and turns
USER@HOST.UUCP into host!host!user.

Are there any systems out there on the UUCP side of the gateway
that would break if this change were to be made?  Any upper case
only names?  Any mixed names?  Any upper case only mailing lists?

The proposed change is somewhat of a hack, but it just might be
the only way to make the gateway work properly.

	Mark