From: Justin Sheehy <justin@linus.mitre.org>
Subject: Re: mail-extract-address-components vs gnus-...
Date: 30 Oct 1997 09:36:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <glmlnzb9v32.fsf@caffeine.rcf.mitre.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Hrvoje Niksic's message of "30 Oct 1997 14:00:43 +0100"
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:
> Interestingly enough, this is intentional.
Yup. I discovered this shortly after I sent that message.
> From: & Niksic <hrvoje@foo.bar>
>
> ...would be translated as
>
> From: Hrvoje Niksic <hrvoje@foo.bar>
>
> mail-extr does this "properly."
I think that "intentional" and "proper" are not the same thing.
See discussion on gnu.emacs.bug.
Yes, I realize that it probably isn't going to change anytime soon, as
that behavior was intentionally caused. I still think that it is a
rather boneheaded "feature".
--
Justin Sheehy
In a cloud bones of steel.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-10-30 14:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-10-26 0:01 Justin Sheehy
1997-10-30 13:00 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1997-10-30 14:36 ` Justin Sheehy [this message]
1997-10-30 22:04 ` Joe Wells
1997-10-30 22:09 ` Justin Sheehy
1997-10-30 23:10 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1997-10-31 15:08 ` Joe Wells
1997-10-31 15:13 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1997-10-31 9:28 ` Per Abrahamsen
[not found] ` <kigd8knjlnp.fsf@jagor.srce.hr>
1997-11-03 19:40 ` Justin Sheehy
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