From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/12740 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Wells Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: mail-extract-address-components vs gnus-... Date: 31 Oct 1997 10:08:12 -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 1035152222 5411 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:17:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:17:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@ifi.uio.no 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 IAA13622 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 08:24:36 -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 KAA19042 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 10:25:39 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from cs.bu.edu (root@CS.BU.EDU [128.197.13.2]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.7/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id QAA04192 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 16:08:24 +0100 (MET) 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 KAA27939; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 10:08:17 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by csb.bu.edu (8.8.5/Spike-2.1) id KAA28990; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 10:08:13 -0500 (EST) Original-To: Hrvoje Niksic In-Reply-To: Hrvoje Niksic's message of 31 Oct 1997 00:10:26 +0100 Original-Lines: 18 X-Mailer: Red Gnus v0.81/Emacs 19.34 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:12740 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:12740 >> 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