I was reading a good story "Edited by TeNderLoin". Does anyone know why he spells his pen name with the Capital Letters N and L, the T seems obvious.)
I was reading a good story "Edited by TeNderLoin". Does anyone know why he spells his pen name with the Capital Letters N and L, the T seems obvious.)
I was reading a good story "Edited by TeNderLoin". Does anyone know why he spells his pen name with the Capital Letters N and L, the T seems obvious.)
I just sent him this link, so he may pop in to reply.
No true *purpose* to it.
I just wanted my nickname to be a bit different and easily recognizable.
}:-)
A Mercenary's Tale
by 2 flags
A very good story which, sadly, has so far been ignored by reviewers (hint hint!)
AJ
TeNderLoin uses his tag like I use my e-mail tags
my e-mails are Oldegrump@*** and Oldephoole@***
It gets peoples attention.
CAT the Oldgrump
TeNderLoin uses his tag like I use my e-mail tags
my e-mails are Oldegrump@*** and Oldephoole@***
It gets peoples attention.
Maybe they should be OldeGrump and OldePhoole, respectively. Just a suggestion.....
with most email accounts, it could be all caps or all lowercase, the account doesn't care
I had thought that email addresses were case insensitive, but in looking up for the RFC, I found that the 'local' portion (the username) case sensitivity is defined by the system it exists on, see here:
From RFC 5321, section-2.3.11:
The standard mailbox naming convention is defined to be "local-part@domain"; contemporary usage permits a much broader set of applications than simple "user names". Consequently, and due to a long history of problems when intermediate hosts have attempted to optimize transport by modifying them, the local-part MUST be interpreted and assigned semantics only by the host specified in the domain part of the address. So yes, the part before the "@" could be case-sensitive, since it is entirely under the control of the host system. In practice though, no widely used mail systems distinguish different addresses based on case. The part after the @ sign however is the domain and according to RFC 1035, section 3.1, "Name servers and resolvers must compare [domains] in a case-insensitive manner" In short, you are safe to treat email addresses as case-insensitive.
On the gripping hand, I have met a system where the email address was case sensitive, and where some characters were classed as invalid even though the relevant RFC permitted them.
On the gripping hand, I have met a system where the email address was case sensitive, and where some characters were classed as invalid even though the relevant RFC permitted them.
Sadly, many companies took RFCs (and certain traditional behavior on Usenet) as optional, and felt free to do their own thing (I'm looking at you Microsoft!)
@madnige
On the gripping hand
I thought I was the only one who used that term.
I suspect that term is used by a number of fans of the story "The Mote in God's Eye" and it's sequel "The Gripping Hand" both by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.