From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Cc: ding@ifi.uio.no
Subject: Re: mail-extract-address-components vs gnus-...
Date: 31 Oct 1997 16:13:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <kigen52ufsg.fsf@jagor.srce.hr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Joe Wells's message of "31 Oct 1997 10:08:12 -0500"
Joe Wells <jbw@cs.bu.edu> writes:
> Hrvoje> Why should `mail-extract-address-components' care about
> Hrvoje> old UNIX quasi-standards escaping from local systems,
> Hrvoje> really?
>
> That's really the main point of it --- to handle all of the weird
> things that show up in mail addresses so that we can present this
> data to the user in a uniform way, i.e., full name and mailbox
> address. Handling just one weird thing doesn't do much for the
> users, but the cumulative effect of handling dozens of different
> weird things is quite helpful.
Yes, but the `&' Unix "standard" is not supposed to escape from the
local system, is it? Why should mail-extr damage good addresses, in
favor of buggy old Unix systems?
--
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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Ask not for whom the <CONTROL-G> tolls.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-10-31 15:13 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
1997-10-31 15:08 ` Joe Wells
1997-10-31 15:13 ` Hrvoje Niksic [this message]
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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