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From: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org>
To: Anthony Barlow <tony@mail.warp.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: 3.0-Current
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On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Anthony Barlow wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I saw in a previous post that 3.0-current supports userid's greater than
> 8 charaters? Is this true, and is it stable enough for a mail & pop server?

1) Yes, it's true.
2) No, it's not necessarily stable enough for a production environment,
   but 2.2-RELEASE also supports >8-letter logins, and that is stable
   enough.
 
> Regards,
> Anthony
> 



 Ben

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