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From: lum%tut.cis.ohio-state.edu@osu-eddie.UUCP (Lum Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: BITNET software
Message-ID: <3952@osu-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 18-Aug-87 14:08:44 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 18 14:08:44 1987
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Reply-To: lum%tut.cis.ohio-state.edu@osu-eddie.UUCP (Lum Johnson)
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Keywords: UNIX, VMS, UREP, JNET, RSCS

In article <2854@psuvax1.psu.edu> ehrlich@psuvax1.psu.edu (Dan Ehrlich) says:
>In article <36b9d33e.44e6@apollo.uucp> jlb@apollo.uucp (Joel Breazeale) says:
>>
>>Also, I've been running into a problem where the address on an
>>incoming message has been upcased, ....  Is this a common problem?
>
>Most reasonable mailer software is case insensitive.  This is
>required by RFC822 which specifies message formats for the Internet.
>Unfortunately, IBM decided that host/user names must be eight or less
>UPPER CASE characters.  This is from the people who brought you
>EBCDIC.  :-)

Sort of reminiscent of Breeze's comment on US foreign policy, at least
without respect for third world nations, as expressed in their reggae
song `Aid Travel with a Bomb'.

TOPS-20 allows upto 19 arbitrary ASCII chars, or upto 39 alphanumerics
in such things as directory, machine, and user names, and passwords.
(Most non-alphanumerics must be quoted to get them to parse in properly;
some control characters cannot be quoted for this purpose.)

-=-
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