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From: Snob Art Genre <benedict@echonyc.com>
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Subject: Re: >8 char usernames going into 2.2.5
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On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, Tom wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, Snob Art Genre wrote:
> 
> > Underscore is AFAIK not supposed to be allowed in usernames.  Hyphen is,
> 
>   Huh?  Why not?

I don't remember where I read it.  Hey people, is this in some RFC
somewhere or am I making it up?

> Tom
> 
> 



 Ben

"You have your mind on computers, it seems."