On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Florian Lohoff<f...@rfc822.org> wrote: > If OSM usernames would not allow spaces and be case sensitive > it would be possible to make the OSM usernames an email adress.
RFC 822 is a lot more flexible about E-Mail addresses than most people think. My username which contains spaces is e.g. a valid RFC 822 E-Mail address if you put it in quotations: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason"@users.openstreetmap.org Given the hostname part of your E-Mail you probably know some of this:) But can you provide an example of a username that isn't a valid in a RFC 822 E-Mail address when double-quoted in this manner? That's leaving aside that you could of course just give people nicknames / send to the OSM user ID if you wanted to implement this. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev