> From: Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 07 Nov 1999 20:14:01 -0500
>
> It's not an internet thing, it's a Unix thing. So it's more likely in
> POSIX or something (not that I know for sure).
>
> The biggest reason is that there are lots of utilities which determine
> if you're passing a username or user number by looking at the first
> character.
Long ago, I used to use '7thson' as my username (see my entiries in the
UNIX-HATERS handbook).
It didn't break anything of importance, but you never know what tools might
assume.
This was under SunOS.
However, there *is* a RFC that specifies that a domain can't start with a
digit, but 3COM got registered w/o anybody noticing, so they decided to scrap
that restriction.
Chris
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