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Re: Email screen Case sensitive??
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lugnet.admin.general
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Thu, 22 Oct 1998 23:19:35 GMT
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daver@ansuz.NOSPAM.demon.co.uk (Dave Ryder) writes:
> I Just had a post refused by lugnet, _after_ I had filled in the form at
> http://www.lugnet.com/news/post/setup/ I frigged areound for a bit and got it
> to work, but it came down to the only thing I had to change was the case of my
> email name from "DaveR" to "daver" in my newsreader to match what I had typed
> on lugnet.
Well, you shouldn't really have to change anything in your newsreader --
that's the defining thing, right? What you probably want to do is re-run
the /news/post/setup/ page and type it in as "DaveR" so that it matches your
newsreader config.
> Have others experienced this?
One other person has reported a similar problem so far. It's possible more
people ran into it and didn't mention it.
> is it usual that email names are case-sensitive??
I don't know if it's usual or not, because I've never heard of a server
doing From-line validation before. But in any case, it's case-sensitive
here. To quote what it says on the setup page,
"Your news-posting identity is what you use when you post news messages.
If you use use a newsreader program (for example, Netscape's Messenger,
Forté's Agent or Free Agent, MicroPlanet's Gravity, or Microsoft's
Outlook Express), the information you provide below must -exactly- match
your newsreader's profile."
...
"Again, if you use a newsreader, the information below must exactly match
your newsreader's profile — or else the server won't be able to recognize
you or accept messages from you."
I'll add a sentence there that clarifies the case-sensitivity. The main
reason it's case sensitive is for easier indexing. The secondary reason is
in order to discourage on-the-fly transformations like
John Gorblefrubbitz
into
jOhN gOrBlEfRuBbItZ
which, at some point, I'm sure would get in the way somewhere of some
indexing mechanism.
--Todd
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