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I wrote
>| There is no need to remove periods, dashes, or spaces from the user name.

dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com (David W. Tamkin) writes:
>"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.

Exactly!  There is such need on some other systems, or translation of
comma into period, etc.

>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.

You are exactly correct.  Minimum length I *think* is 2, since most of the
1 character ones are used. <grin>  In general, mail addresses had better
begin with a letter, followed by any combination of periods, dashes,
letters, and numbers through the 12th character.

>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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