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Bill Verity <[log in to unmask]>
Tue, 18 Sep 2001 10:13:30 -0400
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>On Mon, 17 Sep 2001 11:56:42 -0400, David Hopkins <[log in to unmask]>
>wrote:
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>>This person has only one address but I have two entries on my list.
>
>LISTSERV obeys internet mail standards RFC821 and RFC2821 in this respect.  Both
>standards require that the case of the 'local' or 'userID' part of the address
>(left of the @) MUST be respected and preserved, while 'domain' part of the
>address (right of @) MUST NOT be case sensitive.  So what you observe is a
>natural consequence of this.

I seem to recall that if I delete a subscriber, listserv deletes *all* case variations of the userid. Then I can add back the "correct" version.

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