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From: mikel@codas.ATT.UUCP (Mikel Manitius)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: does anybody use upper case in mail names on UUCP?
Message-ID: <464@codas.ATT.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 26-Jan-86 02:05:54 EST
Article-I.D.: codas.464
Posted: Sun Jan 26 02:05:54 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 26-Jan-86 20:23:02 EST
References: <1785@cbosgd.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Information Systems, Altamonte Springs, FL
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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?

Well, it he's on a Unix system, and really wants to kludge
it, he could do:

	mail `echo "USER@HOST.UUCP" | dd conv=lcase`

	or

	mail `echo "USER@HOST" | dd conv=lcase`.UUCP

Sigh.
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			Mikel Manitius @ AT&T-IS Altamonte Springs, FL
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