Email addresses in all caps
Oct. 31st, 2013 01:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
If you need to fill in a form in all caps and it asks for your email address, what do you do
Put it in all caps, my email address isn't case sensitive
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Put ti in all caps, I assume my email address isn't case sensitive though I haven't checked
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Use the correct case, on principle
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Use the correct case, my email address is case sensitive
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My email address is in upper case anyway
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My email address contains no letters
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We should treat email addresses as case insensitive because intermediate servers may not respect case
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We should treat email addresses as case insensitive because having two email addresses differing in case is obviously a mistake waiting to happen, so no one SHOULD rely on that even if it's technically allowed
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Other
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Date: 2013-10-31 02:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-10-31 02:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-10-31 03:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-10-31 03:00 pm (UTC)And now I have double-checked: if I log on to my ISP and tell it "finger VR" it gives ??? to indicate it never heard of that username, but if I explicitly tell it to send mail locally to VR it is delivered to vr.
Of course, that may be saying more about my ISP than the net at large: this is a place where if I type "mail" at the command line, it tells me to use "Mail" if I really want the old Berkeley mail program, but that they "strongly recommend" mutt, pine, or the mail mode in emacs.
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Date: 2013-10-31 04:16 pm (UTC)That makes sense. (Though you might as well do the whole thing lower case, aren't domain names ACTUALLY case insensitive, or did that not apply to subdomains?)
Of course, that may be saying more about my ISP than the net at large
LOL :)
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Date: 2013-10-31 04:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-10-31 05:19 pm (UTC)That's what I thought, but I wasn't sure if I was missing anything.
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Date: 2013-10-31 03:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-10-31 04:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-10-31 04:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-10-31 05:19 pm (UTC)I had a feeling I'd seen that written somewhere, but I couldn't remember where.
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Date: 2013-11-01 01:52 am (UTC)Unless I don't actually want to give them my email address, in which case they get a throw-away one in lower case and I don't care if they get it wrong.
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Date: 2013-11-01 09:59 am (UTC)Since addresses can be case sensitive people ought to accept lower case addresses though.
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Date: 2013-11-01 01:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-11-01 01:41 pm (UTC)In fact it's not quite, but my spam trap's scoring is configured to penalise senders that capitalise the e-mail address. BT has fallen foul of this in the past and frankly it serves them right.