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Subject: Re: Lists names must be all lower case?!
From: "Roger B.A. Klorese" <rogerk @ QueerNet . ORG>
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 00:19:53 -0700 (PDT)
To: SRE <eckert @ climber . org>
Cc: Eric Zylstra <ericz @ dura . spc . uchicago . edu>, Majordomo-Users @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <3.0.5.32.19990823225142.009ccbe0@10.0.2.2>

On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, SRE wrote:
> Majordomo2 correctly identifies that email addresses are NOT case insensitive!
> Only the domain (right of '@') is insensitive to upper/lower case, and each
> domain gets to decide if the rest of the address is or is not case sensitive.
> Most are not, but some are.

And it will certainly confuse most average subscribers if they need to
remember arbitrary capitalizations.
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