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From: scc@cl.cam.ac.uk (Stephen Crawley)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Dots in a user name.
Message-ID: <1133@jenny.cl.cam.ac.uk>
Date: 30 Jan 88 01:11:31 GMT
Organization: U of Cambridge Comp Lab, UK
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Posted: Sat Jan 30 01:11:31 1988

[Please excuse this somewhat niave question ... ]

In a recent message in another news group, Greg Woods <woods@hao.ucar.edu>
decried the use of "user" names that in contain the character ".".  In
a mail conversation I pointed out that RFC822 specifically allows them
to which he replied that they would cause indigestion to lots of mailers
in the real world.  

Is he correct?  What mailers don't like dots in the user name?

Do mail gateways between RFC822 compliant worlds (like the Internet)
and non-compliant worlds (like UUCP?) quote user names containing
dots as a matter of course?


-- Steve

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