case sensitive of email address

[grenoml]

  Yes, we have dos/windows and their apps to thank for dumbing things
down as they couldn't handle case-sensitive anything and being the most
common platform early on forced certain unavoidable concessions to
their limited capabilities.


--- Ted Fines <fines at Macalester.edu> wrote:
> It wasn't always this way.  There used to be some systems that had
> case 
> sensitive email addresses.  Not surprising, since many of the early
> ones 
> were on Unix.  I wouldn't be surprised if there were still some
> around.
> 
> Likewise, URLs can be case sensitive too.  Most web servers (Apache)
> have 
> just been reconfigured to be case insensitive.
> 
> --On Monday, May 05, 2003 9:10 AM -0700 grenoml <grenoml at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > This is the nature of Internet email - case insensitive.
> >
> > --- joel at science.nus.edu.sg wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Can anyone advise me as to how to make the email address case
> >> sensitive?
> >>
> >> example:
> >>
> >> my email add is abc at company.com, however if i send a mail to
> >> ABC at company.com,
> >> I am able to receive it.
> >>
> >> Is there any way where by I can make it case sensitive?
> >>
> >> Thanks and rgds,
> >> damian
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
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