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Subject: Re: does anybody use upper case in mail names on UUCP?
Message-ID: <49800006@hpcnof.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 22-Jan-86 02:46:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 22 02:46:00 1986
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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?

No it's not fair to translate <HOST>.UUCP to <host>.uucp!!  There
is no constraint against machines that have uppercase letters in
them to distinguish them from lowercase letters and this mapping
of case would destroy that.

Besides, how would you ever send mail to "Shasta" (not "shasta")??

Also mapping usernames to lowercase is also wrong.  


My suspicion is that if a terminal cannot generate other than
lowercase you better use some other system to send mail...

(talk about primitive!!)
						-- Dave Taylor

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