From: qut@netcom.com (Dave Harman OBC)
Date: Sun, 1 Sep 1996 03:00:20 +0800
Subject: Re: Code Review Guidelines (draft)
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! At 09:58 AM 8/29/96 -0500, Igor wrote:
! >The decision that have just made is not a technical decision, it is 
! >a business decision. You just decided that the needs of security 
! >outweight the need to be able to deal with 100% of potential customers.
! 
! I strongly agree.  You've also potentially annoyed a bunch of Europeans,
! Unicode-speakers, and other users of non-ASCII alphabets.
! Just because the domain name in somebody's address is case-insensitive 
! (and culturally-insensitive :-) ASCII, that doesn't mean their user
! name will be also, especially if their _real_ mail system is some
! ugly proprietary thing like Microso-Cc:PR0FS-HS.400 or if their
! name is Swedish or Chinese.

Agreed, the DNS and other systems should be upgraded to 8bit.
Unix should also allow / in file names, it can be escaped somehow.