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- Path: sparky!uunet!rde!andy
- From: andy@homebase.vistachrome.com (Andy Finkenstadt)
- Subject: Re: GEnie now exchanging Internet mail
- Message-ID: <1992Sep5.005544.21236@homebase.vistachrome.com>
- Reply-To: andy@homebase.vistachrome.com
- Organization: Vista-Chrome Incorporated
- References: <1992Aug28.131348.17650@homebase.vistachrome.com$ <78949@ut-emx.uucp> <1992Sep2.232447.16149@homebase.vistachrome.com> <186v5sINN1hp@smurf.smurf.sub.org>
- Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 00:55:44 GMT
- Lines: 29
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- urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) writes:
- [I write]
- >> There is no need to remove periods, dashes, or spaces from the user name.
- >>
- >However, be sure to _quote_ names with spaces, as in
- > "andy user"@genie.geis.com
- >or you may be in for a surprise.
-
- No GEnie addresses contain spaces, only letters, numbers, dashes, and
- periods. I mentioned spaces because AOL prefers the spaces not be there
- on receipt from the Internet. Probably for the same reason you mention
- below. (I learned something new today)
-
- >NB: If your mailer doesn't parse those addresses correctly, you may be in
- >for a surprise anyway. What's more, since there may still be difficulties
- >with names like these because of UUCP-rmail links, support for an alternate
- >scheme such as RFC 1137 might make sense.
-
- >--
- >The game of love is never called off on account of darkness.
- >--
- >Matthias Urlichs -- urlichs@smurf.sub.org -- urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de /(o\
- >Humboldtstrasse 7 -- 7500 Karlsruhe 1 -- Germany -- +49-721-9612521 \o)/
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- GEnie Unix Sysop/Manager | The Printing House | NIC Handle: AF136
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