[Glastonbury] exactitude in e-mail addresses

glastonbury@mailman.lug.org.uk glastonbury at mailman.lug.org.uk
Fri Sep 12 18:35:02 2003


i have changed my email to steve@fractalsoup.org
tks
s~TV

Martin WHEELER wrote:

>Steve __
>
>I've been quietly going nuts trying to figure out what was
>happening today -- like, why were your mails getting held back for
>moderation?
>Until I noticed that some are sent as s~TV; others as s~tv.
>
>s~TV  good
>s~tv  bad
>
>Now, normally, e-mail addresses are case-insensitive.
>In your case, this doesn't seem to happen.  So what character code
>exactly are you using for the tilde, for each address?  Is it the same
>for each?
>
>[ And on a related note: my exim/pine combo drops the tilde and
>everything before it from your e-mail address anyway -- you come out as
>TV (or tv) only.  Just thought you might like to be aware of that.]
>
>Cheers,
>  
>