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Subject:Re: E-mail Addresses From:Karen Kay <karenk -at- NETCOM -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 21 Oct 1993 09:59:18 PDT
W Pienciak said:
> Me, I have a preference for all-lowercase addresses:
> (1) It's the form most commonly seen.
Bitnet-to-bitnet addresses need to be in upper-case. (Some
machines won't recognize them otherwise.) But for sending
to Bitnet from Internet, it doesn't matter. (You just
include .bitnet.) And lowercase is the rule for Internet
addresses.