On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 06:07:35PM +0000, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > 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.
Currently OSM allows most characters: 2 usernames with " in their name 35 users with ' in their name 49 users with @ in their name 4527 users with space in their name And there are tons of software out there which does not support anything than AlphaNumeric + handful of specials like -_+-. f...@de Would also be a valid email address although its of no use as most entry forms will only accept a domain part with at least a single dot ... Also the case sensitivity worrys me a bit - there is software out there which will fix the case for you on sending - IIRC Lotus Notes has got this (bad) habit ... Flo -- Florian Lohoff f...@rfc822.org "Es ist ein grobes Missverständnis und eine Fehlwahrnehmung, dem Staat im Internet Zensur- und Überwachungsabsichten zu unterstellen." - - Bundesminister Dr. Wolfgang Schäuble -- 10. Juli in Berlin
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