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- Organization: K.U.Leuven - Academic Computing Center
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 11:31:31 +01
- From: Herman Van Uytven <SYSTHVU@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be>
- Message-ID: <93028.113131SYSTHVU@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be>
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers,comp.mail.misc
- Subject: rules for 'Personal Name' E-mail addresses
- Lines: 35
-
- Hello,
-
- I am wondering which rules most people are using to make 'Personal Name'
- mail addresses.
- E.G. if my name = Van Uytven and my Surname = Herman, some possibilities
- are :
-
- Herman.Van_Uytven@urc.kuleuven.ac.be
- Herman.Van-Uytven@urc.kuleuven.ac.be
- Herman.VanUytven@urc.kuleuven.ac.be
- Herman.Van.Uytven@urc.kuleuven.ac.be
-
- Our first choice was Van_Uytven, but the '_' is invalid in X.400
- adresses, so I guess we need to drop this possibility.
- Herman.Van.Uytven is neither a good choice, because X.400 will
- have troubles in separating Name and Surname.
-
- Other names we have :
- Surname : Karel Name : Van der Haegen
- Surname : Anne-Mie Name : De Meyer
- Surname : Paula Name : D'Hondt (a single quote)
-
- Most names I see have Surname.Name, so the question is narrowed to
- what you do with spaces, minus sign and quotes in parts of a (sur)name.
- Accented characters (like in Ren{) will be translated to the
- unaccented characters because this network is still 7-bit.
-
- So I am wondering which rules other sites have, and why.
- The goal we have is to give everybody an e-mail account like
- Surname.Name@org.kuleuven.ac.be, so that we only have to put the
- org in our paper telephone book.
-
- Thanks,
-
- -Herman-
-