Quoth Chad Leigh on Wed, Feb 24, 1999:
> >Well, generally I had no problem with what Chad suggested (check for
> >matching lowercase, then check for matching exact-case). But imagine a
> >mail system processing mails for a very high number of users. Checking for
> >both lowercase *and* exact case would double the effort - what most likely
> >would be absolutely unnecessary since probably >90% of mail addresses in
> >the known universe are lowercase.
>
>
> no. because you check the lowercase first and if it matches you don't check
> exact. You would have very little overhead in most cases
What's the point, then? Case-sensitive addresses exist so "foo"
and "FoO" will be different addresses. If all the mail gets to
"foo", the point is lost. So you should check exact match first.
Vadik.
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