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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.  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?

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