On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 12:59:18PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Darren Salt said: > > I demand that Lars Wirzenius may or may not have written... > > > > [snip] > > > Obfuscation which can easily be reversed by a human, but not so easily by > > > a > > > computer, does not render contact information incorrect. If I write my > > > e-mail address as follows, it's still correct: "My full name is Lars Ivar > > > Wirzenius, and you can send me e-mail by taking my initials and putting > > > them in front of the at sign and iki.fi after it." > > > > But is that LIW or liw or Liw or...? :-) > > I know it was a joke, but since email is (usually) case-insensitive, it > won't matter in practice.
not at all. rfc2821 2.4 "The local-part of a mailbox MUST BE treated as case sensitive." So, senders should use LIW@ but the MTA at the other end is free to accept liw@ and Liw@ etc ... ;-) Regards, Paddy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
