From: Bill Davidsen (davidsen@prodigy.com)
Date: Mon Aug 12 2002 - 12:02:45 CDT
On 10 Aug 2002, Erland Sommarskog wrote:
> 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.
>
> Certainly 2) would be a lot more confusing than 3). For an innocent user
> it's not clear why erland.sommarskog@bolag.se works equally well as
> Erland.Sommarskog@bolag.se, whereas to reach Östen Åkesson, he must
> know precisly whether it is östen.åkesson@bolag.se or Östen.Åkesson@bolag.se.
Maybe, but that can be moved to the delivering server, as long as
bolag.se and Bolag.SE are the same.
> 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.
Neither am I, but the problems and solutions can be moved to those who
have to live with the results, so my first guess is that it's not a BAD
idea to do it just as you noted.
I think everything in Scandanavia is pretty confusing anyway, since my
grandfather came from Sweeden and then his part of Sweeden became Norway.
And believe it or not the US Census bureau *cares*, and has rules for
specifying either the name of the country when you left or the current
name of the place. If the Vikings had just stayed and colonized this
continent we wouldn't have this confusion ;-)
-- -bill davidsen (davidsen@darkstar.prodigy.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me