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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?

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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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