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From: reid@glacier.ARPA (Brian Reid)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: does anybody use upper case in mail names on UUCP?
Message-ID: <3384@glacier.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 22-Jan-86 02:46:32 EST
Article-I.D.: glacier.3384
Posted: Wed Jan 22 02:46:32 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 23-Jan-86 21:27:30 EST
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Reply-To: reid@glacier.UUCP (Brian Reid)
Organization: Stanford University, Computer Systems Lab
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Summary: don't do it. Let them rot, uh, er, LET THEM ROT (UPPER CASE)

I've used upper-case names in uucp for years, just to be pathological and
cause trouble. I recently converted "Glacier" to "glacier" when it became a
backbone site, out of a sense of civic duty.

>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.

The problem with your solution is that it aids and abets the receipt of
all-uppercase mail by helpless System V users. My attitude towards this kind
of thing is that you should do nothing at all to help people with such
radically inferior hardware; maybe the pressure to be able to send mail will
motivate them to upgrade to 1970's technology.
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	Brian Reid	decwrl!glacier!reid
	Stanford	reid@SU-Glacier.ARPA