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From: laura@hoptoad.uucp (Laura Creighton)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: does anybody use upper case in mail names on UUCP?
Message-ID: <444@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: Mon, 27-Jan-86 19:31:04 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 27 19:31:04 1986
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Reply-To: laura@hoptoad.UUCP (Laura Creighton)
Organization: Nebula Consultants in San Francisco
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The people on BITNET with the upper case only terminals have a worse
problem than not being able to send mail to System V people.  They
have upper case only terminals! I think that the best solution all
around would be for them to buy better terminals.  If that is not
possible, then somewhere in BITNET land there needs to be a convention
for ``Begin lower case now''.  All of our uucp logins are mixed case
right now; they all begin with an upper-case U, e.g. Usun Ulll-crg
Uihnp4 and Ucbosgd.  While it seems unlikely that anyone would
want to send mail to any of these accounts, the fact that we have
a use for mixed case account names implies that somebody else might
have one as well, and I don't think that we should have another
kludgy limitation to accommodate the BITNET people.

-- 
Laura Creighton		
sun!hoptoad!laura		(note new address!  l5 will still
ihnp4!hoptoad!laura		 work for a while....)
hoptoad!laura@lll-crg.arpa