From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/12737 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Justin Sheehy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: mail-extract-address-components vs gnus-... Date: 30 Oct 1997 17:09:25 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035152219 5377 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:16:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:16:59 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA15017 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 15:28:50 -0800 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA26325 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 17:29:42 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.7/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with SMTP id XAA26679 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 23:09:32 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: (qmail 15091 invoked by uid 504); 30 Oct 1997 22:09:31 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 15088 invoked from network); 30 Oct 1997 22:09:31 -0000 Original-Received: from linus.mitre.org (129.83.10.1) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 30 Oct 1997 22:09:30 -0000 Original-Received: from caffeine.mitre.org (caffeine.mitre.org [129.83.10.136]) by linus.mitre.org (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id RAA02716 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 17:09:31 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by caffeine.mitre.org (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id RAA06337; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 17:09:26 -0500 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Joe Wells's message of "30 Oct 1997 17:04:20 -0500" Original-Lines: 32 X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.12/Emacs 20.2 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:12737 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:12737 Joe Wells writes: > There is an old UNIX quasi-standard that "&" in the GECOS (full name and > other random information) field of a user's passwd entry stands for their > username capitalized. Yup. I am aware of this, I just think that it is a tradition that should be considered deprecated. There is no good reason for it except that a few old systems have "Charlie &" as root's Full Name. I'd be more than willing to see the occasional ugly mail from Charlie &, if it meant that the others looked right. > It would be reasonable to restrict this to only do it when the "&" > is either at the beginning or end of the full name part. Now _that_ is a good idea. I'm going to look and see within the next couple of days to see just how hard it will be to fix this in mail-extract-address-components. If I make a patch, it will definitely behave as you describe. That ought to fix the ones that currently break without breaking the older names like Charlie Root. -- Justin Sheehy In a cloud bones of steel.