Subject: Re: [PATCH] mailmap: resurrect lower-casing of email addresses

From: A Large Angry SCM <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:17:45 -0400

Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, A Large Angry SCM wrote:
> 
>> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>> Johannes Schindelin <[email-masked]> writes:
>>>
>>>>> What part of the email address is this going to lowercase? Only the
>>>>> domain
>>>>> name is case agnostic.
>>> That is my understanding of RFC, too.  Let's see where this mail goes to
>>> find out how much more lenient the real world is ;-).
>>>
>>>
>> Many email providers/servers are lenient when it comes to case in the 
>> local part of an email address (after all, they control the 
>> interpretation) but not every provider/server is and the RFC is VERY 
>> clear on this issue.
> 
> And in one of my projects it is _very_ clear that this strict 
> interpretation of the RFC, which does not matter in reality, _actively_ 
> _hurts_.

Care to provide actual justification for that statement.

> In the alternative, can I ask you to adjust my .mailmap in your free time?

_Your_ .mailmap file is your issue.

So which standards do you choose to follow and which do you choose to 
ignore?