Email addresses in all caps

[jack]

Poll #14460 Email addresses in all caps

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If you need to fill in a form in all caps and it asks for your email address, what do you do

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Put it in all caps, my email address isn't case sensitive
15 (44.1%)

Put ti in all caps, I assume my email address isn't case sensitive though I haven't checked
5 (14.7%)

Use the correct case, on principle
18 (52.9%)

Use the correct case, my email address is case sensitive
1 (2.9%)

My email address is in upper case anyway
0 (0.0%)

My email address contains no letters
0 (0.0%)

We should treat email addresses as case insensitive because intermediate servers may not respect case
7 (20.6%)

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
16 (47.1%)

Other
2 (5.9%)

 

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[jack]

I have taken to putting at least the username part in all caps when filling things in by hand,

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 :)

[redbird]

I tend to do the domain name lower-case because that's physically easier for me, and "panix.com" is pretty legible in my handwriting. Domain names are indeed case-insensitive, and while I'm not sure about subdomains, it doesn't apply here, there isn't one in my email address.

[jack]

Ah, right.

That's what I thought, but I wasn't sure if I was missing anything.