From: Seth Breidbart (sethb@panix.com)
Date: Sat Aug 10 2002 - 17:59:21 CDT
> Obviously, there are likely to be some confusing cases, but what are
> the alternatives:
> 1) Make all mail address case sensitive and break a lot of things.
> 2) Only make all non-ASCII characters case-sensitive.
> 3) Define general language-dependent case-insensitiveness as best-possible.
Except for "pOstMASter", which is required to be case-insensitive,
it's a local option (which means that it is case-sensitive, but most
places choose to treat mail as if it were case-insensitive).
> For the local part, one could let the admin configure his server for
> rules fitting the local language, but I'm not sure this is a good
> idea.
How do you propose to do anything _other than_ "let the admin
configure his server" as he wishes?
Seth