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Re: modified email address in debian/copyright file



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



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