From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/4191 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sudish Joseph Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Signature in forwarded messages Date: 30 Nov 1995 18:56:16 -0500 Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science Sender: joseph@cis.ohio-state.edu Message-ID: References: <199511291831.KAA04524@block.statsci.com> <199511300635.WAA07790@cyclone.Stanford.EDU> <199511300742.CAA09761@ector.cs.purdue.edu> <9511300933.AA24332@dusty.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035144974 28825 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:16:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:16:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@ifi.uio.no, eagle@cyclone.Stanford.EDU Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by miranova.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id QAA26965 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 16:46:28 -0800 Original-Received: from news.cis.ohio-state.edu (news.cis.ohio-state.edu [164.107.8.50]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 00:56:24 +0100 Original-Received: from bank.cis.ohio-state.edu (bank.cis.ohio-state.edu [164.107.16.2]) by news.cis.ohio-state.edu (8.6.8.1/8.6.4) with ESMTP id SAA28701; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 18:56:21 -0500 Original-Received: (joseph@localhost) by bank.cis.ohio-state.edu (8.6.7/8.6.4) id SAA03832; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 18:56:17 -0500 Original-To: Kai Grossjohann X-Mailer: VM 5.95 (beta), GNU Emacs 19.28.1 In-Reply-To: Kai Grossjohann's message of Thu, 30 Nov 95 10:33:32 +0100 Original-Lines: 32 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4191 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4191 Kai Grossjohann writes: >>>>>> On Thu, 30 Nov 1995 02:42:49 -0500, Saileshwar Krishnamurthy >>>>>> said: Sailesh> Just something trivial: Gnus unlike GNUS displays the Name Sailesh> of the sender of a message rather than the email-address in Sailesh> a summary buffer. There are times when people don't have Sailesh> names, only email-addresses and then that entry in the Sailesh> Summary buffer is just blank. > Yes! Yes! I get this, too, and have always attributed it to BBDB. > If you don't use BBDB that might be an indication of a problem with > Gnus rather than with BBDB or the BBDB/Gnus interaction. Just FYI. Both BBDB (mail-extract-address-components, really) and gnus-extract-address-components can return null full names--but for different reasons. mail-extr does it when the name is a single word that is the same as the person's login id. It does this so that BBDB doesn't get too many bogus hits when it's checking for new addresses for known posters. I had a patch that altered this behaviour...I backed it out after a few months, the number of bogus matches was a severe pain. gnus-extract-address-components gives empty addresses when people use bogus (non-1036 conformant) address formats. For e.g., the address " (J. Luser)" is bogus, but occurs with unnerving frequency, as does "". Currently, it returns null on these formats, but I think they'd be worth supporting, considering the frequency with which they're encountered. -Sudish