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  15     <B>Andrew Church</B>
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  19     <I>Wed Jun 19 11:56:42 PDT 2002</I>
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  34 <PRE>&gt;&gt;<i> &gt;So the original ircd considered {}|[]\ to be &quot;letters&quot;.
  35 </I>&gt;&gt;<i>
  36 </I>&gt;&gt;<i>      *BZZZT* Nice try, thank you for playing.  To quote RFC1459:
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  38 </I>&gt;&gt;<i> &lt;nick&gt;    ::= &lt;letter&gt; { &lt;letter&gt; | &lt;number&gt; | &lt;special&gt; }
  39 </I>&gt;&gt;<i> &lt;letter&gt;  ::= 'a' ... 'z' | 'A' ... 'Z'
  40 </I>&gt;&gt;<i> &lt;number&gt;  ::= '0' ... '9'
  41 </I>&gt;&gt;<i> &lt;special&gt; ::= '-' | '[' | ']' | '\' | '`' | '^' | '{' | '}'
  42 </I>&gt;&gt;<i>
  43 </I>&gt;&gt;<i>      In other words, a &quot;letter&quot; is really a letter from A to Z, and not one
  44 </I>&gt;&gt;<i> of []\{}|.  (It is true, however, that {}| and []\ were considered
  45 </I>&gt;&gt;<i> case-insensitively equivalent.)
  46 </I>&gt;&gt;<i>
  47 </I>&gt;<i>
  48 </I>&gt;<i>But in the finland alphabet, ae, slash-o, and the other thing ARE between
  49 </I>&gt;<i>A and Z :)
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  51      I didn't notice that the RFC was written in Finnish...
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  53   --Andrew Church
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