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  Re: Email screen Case sensitive??
 
(...) E-mail addresses are by convention lower case. This is because different mail hosts cope with case in different ways. By the standard described in [some RFC], they're supposed to respect it, but given all the weird operatings systems all over (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Email screen Case sensitive??
 
(...) The DNS system, by the way, and as completely irrelevant aside, is supposed to respect case when possible but NOT to actually distinguish between different cases when storing data. (26 years ago, 22-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Email screen Case sensitive??
 
(...) But of course people who use mixed-case in domain and hostnames are Total Lusers. (26 years ago, 22-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)

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