From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Subject: Re: mail-extract-address-components vs gnus-...
Date: 31 Oct 1997 00:10:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <kig4t5yg84d.fsf@jagor.srce.hr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Joe Wells's message of "30 Oct 1997 17:04:20 -0500"
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. Unfortunately, sometimes these
> escape the local system without having the "&" replaced. This
> happens often enough to make it worthwhile for
> mail-extract-address-components to handle it.
Why should `mail-extract-address-components' care about old UNIX
quasi-standards escaping from local systems, really?
--
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
--------------------------------+--------------------------------
The end of the world is coming... SAVE YOUR BUFFERS!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-10-30 23:10 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
1997-10-30 22:04 ` Joe Wells
1997-10-30 22:09 ` Justin Sheehy
1997-10-30 23:10 ` Hrvoje Niksic [this message]
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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