The vast majority of websites that use email addresses for Username are not case sensitive.

Likewise, Email clients are also not sensitive to case, with the email arriving at the intended user irrespective of the email address used being all upper case, 50% Upper case, or all lower case.

Some Companies do make the Email addresses they give to their Employees case sensitive, but that is very, very unusual.

GMail, Outlook.com, Hotmail, Yahoo, Apple etc., are all not sensitive to case.

Point being here that most people will be used to the above behaviour on other websites and will interpret their "rejection" by the Meridian site as their not being registered... just as the first several posters on this thread misinterpreted why they had been denied access.

It's a simple fix for Meridian to make.

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