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From: dfk@unido.UUCP
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Subject: Re: does anybody use upper case in mail
Message-ID: <11500003@unido.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 30-Jan-86 17:42:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 30 17:42:00 1986
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Nf-From: unido!dfk    Jan 30 22:42:00 1986


  > 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? 


I suggest a heuristic method in use on unido.uucp alias unido.bitnet
for a fewe months now: Map localparts and domains to lowercase if they
contain NO lowercase characters. This is like getty does determines wether
to set LCASE.

We can't do without this heuristic because the native Bitnet addresses
are uppercase only. Hence nobody could send users on unido itself any mail
using native addressing using what they call tags.

Facit: Not a nice solution, but it works and breaks nothing.

-Daniel Karrenberg <dfk@unido.uucp, dfk@unido.bitnet>

PS: Please don't use our gateway for mail to/from uucp-sites outside europe.
    We have to pay the bills !