Re: Code Review Guidelines (draft)

At 09:58 AM 8/29/96 -0500, Igor wrote:
>The decision that have just made is not a technical decision, it is 
>a business decision. You just decided that the needs of security 
>outweight the need to be able to deal with 100% of potential customers.

I strongly agree.  You've also potentially annoyed a bunch of Europeans,
Unicode-speakers, and other users of non-ASCII alphabets.
Just because the domain name in somebody's address is case-insensitive 
(and culturally-insensitive :-) ASCII, that doesn't mean their user
name will be also, especially if their _real_ mail system is some
ugly proprietary thing like Microso-Cc:PR0FS-HS.400 or if their
name is Swedish or Chinese.

> ..... X.400 ..... /OU=foo/O=bar/C=KREV/
(X.400 may be evil, but it does exist :-)

> [ ! is almost dead ]
! is still around, especially for gateways to proprietary mail systems.

You also need to add colon : and maybe comma , .



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! At 09:58 AM 8/29/96 -0500, Igor wrote:
! >The decision that have just made is not a technical decision, it is 
! >a business decision. You just decided that the needs of security 
! >outweight the need to be able to deal with 100% of potential customers.
! 
! I strongly agree.  You've also potentially annoyed a bunch of Europeans,
! Unicode-speakers, and other users of non-ASCII alphabets.
! Just because the domain name in somebody's address is case-insensitive 
! (and culturally-insensitive :-) ASCII, that doesn't mean their user
! name will be also, especially if their _real_ mail system is some
! ugly proprietary thing like Microso-Cc:PR0FS-HS.400 or if their
! name is Swedish or Chinese.

Agreed, the DNS and other systems should be upgraded to 8bit.
Unix should also allow / in file names, it can be escaped somehow.