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"Peter C.S. Adams" <[log in to unmask]>
Thu, 19 Nov 1998 11:43:56 -0500
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Stan Ryckman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Actually, while login usernames are usually case sensitive in UNIX,
>mail addresses are generally not.  Mail delivery agents take care of
>the mapping.  It's been a long time since the mail username had to
>equal the login username.

Which of course explains why almost no one nowadays even knows that email
addresses *might be* case sensitive. But as for listserv accepting
[log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask] as two separate addresses but then
deleting them both as one, this is known behavior. See, for instance, from
the archives:

http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind9801&L=lstown-l&D=0&P=7924

BTW to the person with problems adding accounts with long email addresses,
why not just turn off text wrap in your mail program? If yours won't do it,
it's either too pathetic to live, or you just haven't found the right
option in the preferences. :-> Eudora even has a handy little button in the
main windows where you can turn wrap on or off on an ad hoc basis.

--
Peter C.S. Adams <[log in to unmask]>
co-owner, PAGEMAKR mailing list <http://www.hypercorp.com/gain/pm/>
"Common courtesy is not so common." -- apologies to Voltaire

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