From: stewarts@ix.netcom.com
To: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov)
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UTC Datetime: 1996-08-30 09:56:18 UTC
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From: stewarts@ix.netcom.com
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 17:56:18 +0800
To: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov)
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.
> ..... X.400 ..... /OU=foo/O=bar/C=KREV/
(X.400 may be evil, but it does exist :-)
> [ ! is almost dead ]
! is still around, especially for gateways to proprietary mail systems.
You also need to add colon : and maybe comma , .
# Thanks; Bill
# Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts@ix.netcom.com
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