On 1/8/98 6:16 PM, Pauline M. Marshall <[log in to unmask]> wrote... >On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Adam Bailey wrote: > >> >If LISTSERV could automatically convert all user-ids to the lower case (as >> >a standard), it would solve the problem with double subscriptions. >> >> No, no, no. That would be wrong. RFCs state that usernames don't have to >> be case insensitive. On some systems, usernames ARE case sensitive. > >Then if they are two seperate usernames (as defined by RFCs) then they >should be able to be manipulated as two (ie, add, delete, mail, digest, >index, review etc), and not have 'fuzzy logic' matching for some, but not >all commands. I have no problem with adding some special switch, like "DEL [log in to unmask] (exact". I AM against making delete commands (and keeping add commands) case sensitive, since 99.99% of the time, you're not dealing with case sensitive addresses. I'd much rather we have to do a little more work to deal with those very rare cases, then have to do more work the rest of the time. -- Adam Bailey | Chicago, Illinois -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-| "Do not take life too seriously; [log in to unmask] | you will never get out of it alive." [log in to unmask] | - Elbert Hubbard Finger for PGP | http://www.tezcat.com/~adamb