Nathan,

If you are on the Listserv Owners list you would have seen I have already
resolved myself to the fact that the RFC is valid...  My issue is every ISP
ignores this and any version of the e-mail address always gets dumped into the
same mail box...

Listserv will warn me during an e-mail add that a duplicate e-mail address
exists and prompt me to do a delete and an add to take care of the problem.
But, during a bulk add when I'm adding 1000+ addresses to our main mailing list
(NCM-Central) I get no message, if it is there I would never see it while adding
that many subscribers.....

I think it is time for Lsoft to revisit this problem...  The models don't always
hold up.  Anyway I have a work around, which causes me more work, but it is not
what I want to spend my time doing building a very successful Corvette Museum
mailing list.

Do a "show license" on our listserv...  I'm still debating the upgrade to
1.8e...

Glenn
mailto:[log in to unmask]
http://listserv.corvttemuseum.com

[log in to unmask] wrote:
>
> We reference it on our FAQ page.
>
> http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/lsv-faq.stm#5.19
>
> RFC821 is clear that left side is case-sensitive while right side is
> case-insensitive.
>
> Section 2, THE SMTP MODEL
>
> (...)
>     Commands and replies are not case sensitive.  That is, a command or
>     reply word may be upper case, lower case, or any mixture of upper and
>     lower case.  Note that this is not true of mailbox user names.  For
>     some hosts the user name is case sensitive, and SMTP implementations
>     must take case to preserve the case of user names as they appear in
>     mailbox arguments.  Host names are not case sensitive.
> (...)
>
> RFC1035 reinforces the right side case-insensitivity issue.
>
> 2.3.1. Preferred name syntax
>
> (...)
> Note that while upper and lower case letters are allowed in domain names,
> no significance is attached to the case. That is, two names with the same
> spelling but different case are to be treated as if identical.
> (...)
>
> Nathan
>
> At 23:26 2002/09/28 -0400, Glenn Darwin wrote:
> >Here is Lsoft support's reply to my problem with dupes during the bulk add...
> >
> >What I have done is downloaded all the subscribers and used ultraedit to
> >tranform all caps to lower case.  Then I did a bulk add with the option to
> >delete all and reload....
> >
> >Before the load I had 15,142 subscribers.  And a ton of complaints about dupe
> >subscriptions....  After the load I ended up with 14,097.  After letting
> >Listserv weed out the dupes in the same format...
> >
> >I would like to see the RFC to back up Lsofts claim that every thing on
> >the left
> >of the @ sign is not case dependant.
> >
> > From now on when I do a 1000 plus load I'm going to transform every thing to
> >lowercase to keep this from happening again.
> >
> >Glenn
> >http://www.corvettemuseum.com
> >
> >Clara Lyon wrote:
> > >
> > > > Is there any way to stop duplicate e-mail addresses to be added in
> > 1.8d...  When
> > > > using the bulk add I get no indication of duplicates. I get a notice
> > when using
> > > > the e-mail interface.  I'm spending a lot of time taking care of
> > complaints of 2
> > > > or more copies of post going out, which is a result of duplicate
> > e-mail address
> > > > with one or more characters being a different case.
> > > >
> > > > Has this been addressed in 1.8e?
> > >
> > > Not in the case your speaking of.
> > >
> > > Joe@domainname
> > > would be an entirely different address than
> > > [log in to unmask]
> > >
> > > Anything left of the @ sign is case sensitive, anything left of the @ is
> > > not
> > > >
> > > > Glenn
> > > > National Corvette Museum
> > > > http://listserv.corvettemuseum.com
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Clare Lyon
> > >
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