From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 30 11:21:25 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id LAA12299 for current-outgoing; Mon, 30 Dec 1996 11:21:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id LAA12293 for ; Mon, 30 Dec 1996 11:21:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id UAA06969 for ; Mon, 30 Dec 1996 20:21:20 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id UAA12474 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 30 Dec 1996 20:21:19 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id UAA10182 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 30 Dec 1996 20:20:32 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199612301920.UAA10182@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: usable characters for login names To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 20:20:31 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) 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" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)