Email addresses in all caps

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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%)

 

Comments

[catyak]

If I do it in lower case and hand the form to the recipient in person, they usually ask what my email address is and write it in block caps anyway. Starting with LL makes it highly ambiguous if I don't use caps.

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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