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Article #1126Re: GEnie now exchanging Internet mail
From: David W. Tamkin
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1992 17:25
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1992 17:25
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andy@homebase.vistachrome.com wrote in <1992Sep2.232447.16149@homebase.vistachrome.com>: | There is no need to remove periods, dashes, or spaces from the user name. "No need"? To the best of my knowledge one must leave periods and hyphens *in* because the same sequence of letters and digits with a period or hyphen dropped could be someone else's GEmail ID. Unless GEnie has recently changed its software or policies, if your correspondent on GEnie claims to have a username that includes a space, get out the sodium pentathol. Last I knew, GEnie mail ID's had to be twelve characters long at the most and to consist of letters (insensitive to case), digits, periods, and hyphens; the first character must be a letter. I don't remember the minimum length. David W. Tamkin Box 59297 Northtown Station, Illinois 60659-0297 dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com CompuServe: 73720,1570 MCI Mail: 426-1818
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From: dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com (David W. Tamkin)
Subject: Re: GEnie now exchanging Internet mail
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