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- From: dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com (David W. Tamkin)
- Subject: Re: GEnie now exchanging Internet mail
- Message-ID: <1992Sep6.172505.19416@ddsw1.mcs.com>
- Organization: Contributor Account at ddsw1, Chicago, Illinois 60657
- References: <1992Aug28.131348.17650@homebase.vistachrome.com$ <78949@ut-emx.uucp> <1992Sep2.232447.16149@homebase.vistachrome.com>
- Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 17:25:05 GMT
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- andy@homebase.vistachrome.com wrote in
- <1992Sep2.232447.16149@homebase.vistachrome.com>:
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- | There is no need to remove periods, dashes, or spaces from the user name.
-
- "No need"? To the best of my knowledge one must leave periods and hyphens
- *in* because the same sequence of letters and digits with a period or hyphen
- dropped could be someone else's GEmail ID.
-
- Unless GEnie has recently changed its software or policies, if your
- correspondent on GEnie claims to have a username that includes a space, get
- out the sodium pentathol. Last I knew, GEnie mail ID's had to be twelve
- characters long at the most and to consist of letters (insensitive to case),
- digits, periods, and hyphens; the first character must be a letter. I don't
- remember the minimum length.
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