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Joe Wells <jbw@cs.bu.edu> 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.