On Sep 24, 2010, at 1:11 AM, Numien wrote:
On 24/09/10 04:03 AM, Roger Burton West wrote:
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 08:59:53AM +0100, Bob Walker wrote:
I recently found that in our work software that even though we use
email addresses as the username we dont actually check this
properly
so an.exam...@example.com and an.exam...@example.com can be
different
users. This has confused users several times.
But they can.
Not that anyone does it, but the standard supports it.
R
Yes, but knowing the trend in case-sensitivity, an.exam...@example.com
is likely also not the same as an.exam...@example.com... which
should be.
Domain names are case-insensitive.
Network Solutions (and the InterNIC before it) has had the poor taste
to write domains in all uppercase, e.g. jju...@gmail.com, as if the
Internet had started on VMS rather than Unix. Except they don't
upcase the local part of email addresses, so at least it's legal.
Josh
