Length of User names

[Matthew Farwell]

In article <1991Jun01.144752.22884 at convex.com> tchrist at convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
>Most sendmail configurations will accept mail to firstname.lastname
>or firstname_lastname instead of to that person's login.  No fuzzy
>logic involved, though: it has to match the gcos field exactly, 
>modulo case of course.   Why not just tell people to do this?  Finger
>can also help to locate login names.

A mail system I used to use (a home-grown mail system running on a Cyber
180 under NOS) used to (still does as far as I know) support full name
type addresses, ie M.J.Farwell at wherever.  If you sent to a wrong
address, however, it sent back a list of fuzzy matches, ie N.K.Farjel or
something like that.  Now that was quite useful.

Dylan.
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