Language change and code breaks

Duncan Booth duncan at NOSPAMrcp.co.uk
Wed Jul 25 07:13:13 EDT 2001


paul at boddie.net (Paul Boddie) wrote in 
news:23891c90.0107250210.2e37ca61 at posting.google.com:

>> You would be very surprised if email to JKnapka at EarthLink.Net was sent
>> to a different user than email to jknapka at earthlink.net.  There are 
> 
> I'm fairly sure that I don't get personal e-mails (going via my
> particular mail provider) when the capitalisation of parts of my
> address is changed. Not that I regard this as desirable, but I no
> longer regard it as surprising.
> 

If I remember correctly, the domain name (after the '@') is not case 
sensitive. The user name (before the '@') *may* be case sensitive, but it 
varies from system to system.

-- 
Duncan Booth                                             duncan at rcp.co.uk
int month(char *p){return(124864/((p[0]+p[1]-p[2]&0x1f)+1)%12)["\5\x8\3"
"\6\7\xb\1\x9\xa\2\0\4"];} // Who said my code was obscure?



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