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Joe Wells <jbw@cs.bu.edu> writes:

> This happens often enough to make it worthwhile for
> mail-extract-address-components to handle it.

I don't think this is true.  I have been counting `&' in from headers
in both mail and news archives, and it is far more common that `&'
means `&' than the login name.  Even in older mail archives.