From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/12736 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Wells Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: mail-extract-address-components vs gnus-... Date: 30 Oct 1997 17:04:20 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.103) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035152218 5376 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:16:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:16:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA14928 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 15:23:59 -0800 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA26287 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 17:25:10 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.7/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with SMTP id XAA26251 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 23:04:51 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: (qmail 15071 invoked by uid 504); 30 Oct 1997 22:04:35 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 15068 invoked from network); 30 Oct 1997 22:04:35 -0000 Original-Received: from cs.bu.edu (root@128.197.13.2) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 30 Oct 1997 22:04:35 -0000 Original-Received: from csb.bu.edu (jbw@CSB.BU.EDU [128.197.10.4]) by cs.bu.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5/(BU-S-01/27/97-fc1)) with ESMTP id RAA18581; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 17:04:27 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by csb.bu.edu (8.8.5/Spike-2.1) id RAA12758; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 17:04:20 -0500 (EST) Original-To: Justin Sheehy In-Reply-To: Justin Sheehy's message of 30 Oct 1997 09:36:17 -0500 Original-Lines: 28 X-Mailer: Red Gnus v0.81/Emacs 19.34 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:12736 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:12736 >>>>> "Justin" == Justin Sheehy writes: >> From: & Niksic >> >> ...would be translated as >> >> From: Hrvoje Niksic >> >> mail-extr does this "properly." Justin> I think that "intentional" and "proper" are not the same thing. Justin> See discussion on gnu.emacs.bug. Justin> Yes, I realize that it probably isn't going to change anytime Justin> soon, as that behavior was intentionally caused. I still think Justin> that it is a rather boneheaded "feature". 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. It would be reasonable to restrict this to only do it when the "&" is either at the beginning or end of the full name part. -- Joe Wells