On 1/8/98 4:54 PM, Jacky Foo <[log in to unmask]> wrote...

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>From:   Pauline M. Marshall
>>For example, you can add two people with different cases ([log in to unmask]
>>and [log in to unmask] are two different subscribers), but you can't delete
>>them singly (if you ask to delete mmouse, both mmouse and MMouse get
>>unsubed), but, as shown below, not only does it not care about case, it
>>doesn't care about domain/machine names).  Aghghgh.
>
>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.

That's where this whole argument started.


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