Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 20:20:31 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: usable characters for login names Message-ID: <199612301920.UAA10182@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199612292027.FAA07801@mail.tky007.tth.expo96.ad.jp> from =?us-ascii?Q?Masafumi_NAKANE=2F=3D=3FISO=2D2022=2DJP=3FB=3FGy?= =?us-ascii?Q?RCQ2Y6LDJtSjgbKEI=3D=3F=3D?= at "Dec 30, 96 05:27:16 am"
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As Masafumi NAKANE/=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQ2Y6LDJtSjgbKEI=?= wrote: > Then, at least underscore and dash (`_' & `-') are acceptable, right? The use of a dash is highly suspicous however, and should probably warned. By Internet definition, mail names belonging to persons should have no dash, since names containing dashes are reserved for mailing lists (with the implicit and often forgotten assumption, that you can append another `-request' to reach the maintainer of the list). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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