From: Joe Wells <jbw@cs.bu.edu>
Cc: ding@ifi.uio.no
Subject: Re: mail-extract-address-components vs gnus-...
Date: 31 Oct 1997 10:08:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xnjzpnq55sz.fsf@csb.bu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Hrvoje Niksic's message of 31 Oct 1997 00:10:26 +0100
>> 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.
Hrvoje> Why should `mail-extract-address-components' care about old UNIX
Hrvoje> quasi-standards escaping from local systems, 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.
--
Joe Wells <jbw@dcs.gla.ac.uk>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-10-31 15:08 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 [this message]
1997-10-31 15:13 ` Hrvoje Niksic
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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