[ubuntu-uk] Evolution irritation

[David Restall - System Administrator]

Tony,

> Diane,
> 
> Dianne Reuby wrote:
> > I've just had an important email bounce because when I typed in the
> > email address (which isn't in my contacts list), Evo capitalised the
> > first letter.
> 
> I always thought that e-mail addresses were case insensitive, so I would
> be tempted to blame the organisation that bounced the message, not EVO.

Me too until I had a similar problem.  The domain part is case insensitive
because it follows the rules for DNS.  The local part is case sensitive -
it follows the rules for local users and on (for example) UNIX dave is
not the same as daVe (I won't mention the historical reason why DAVE is
not a good UNIX logon :-)).  It works because most sensible sysadmins
fold everything to one case or the other.  It's in the RFC's somewhere,
I just can't remember where.

Diane, it's a pain and I hate it when I use any word processor that
capitalises words for me - or indeed does anything automatically.
Too often these systems think they are being clever and overriding them
becomes a big irritant.  Having fewer clever features forces you to
improve your proof reading and typing skills.

My other pet irritant is sysadmins who insist on aliasing rm to rm -i.

Now I'm worried that I've done something wrong and some wit on the list
will come back and say "if you had feature XYZ enabled, it would have
corrected that" :-)  (I'll reply and say "What in vi ?" :-)

TTFN


D
ubuntu/uk-2008-04-24.tx                        ubuntu-uk
                                               tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk
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