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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: <1992Sep8.001938.12965@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> <1992Sep6.172505.19416@ddsw1.mcs.com>
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 00:19:38 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- I wrote
- >| There is no need to remove periods, dashes, or spaces from the user name.
-
- dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com (David W. Tamkin) writes:
- >"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.
-
- Exactly! There is such need on some other systems, or translation of
- comma into period, etc.
-
- >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.
-
- You are exactly correct. Minimum length I *think* is 2, since most of the
- 1 character ones are used. <grin> In general, mail addresses had better
- begin with a letter, followed by any combination of periods, dashes,
- letters, and numbers through the 12th character.
-
- >David W. Tamkin Box 59297 Northtown Station, Illinois 60659-0297
- >dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com CompuServe: 73720,1570 MCI Mail: 426-1818
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