Posted by Michael Fesser on 10/25/07 15:20

..oO(AnrDaemon)

>Greetings, Steve.
>In reply to Your message dated Wednesday, October 24, 2007, 21:34:41,
>
>S> the rfc's allow for 'illegal' characters in account names as long as they're
>S> encapsulated. this is to compensate for non-latin character sets
>S> (particularly, non-english sets). is that ringing a bell?
>
>Never saw any in 10 years. And I think I'll never see.
>Not all what allowed by RFC is acceptable by real ISP's.

It's also not acceptable to improperly mark quoted lines in a reply,
because it makes the postings very hard to read. The Usenet way is a
single '>', so please adjust your newsreader. I think I've already
mentioned that.

Micha

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