From: "Steven E. Harris" <seh@panix.com>
Subject: Re: gnus-posting-styles
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 10:53:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <831wuzjfju.fsf@torus.sehlabs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87psikdz3t.fsf@gmail.com>
Hadron Quark <hadronquark@gmail.com> writes:
> Possibly, but it only happens with the personality which includes
> the"." in the "name" so I'm a little stuck.
Right. Note that I'm posting with my middle initial present, followed
by a period. I discovered this rule years ago when I started using my
middle initial.
See RFC 822 Section 6.1, ADDRESS SPECIFICATION. In particular, look
at "mailbox". A name preceding the actual address is a "phrase",
which, per Section 3.3, contains one or more "words", which are in
turn comprised either of quoted strings or "atoms". An atom can be any
"CHAR" except a "special", of which the period is one.
To use a period before an address, one must use a quoted string. The
parenthetical form is a "comment", described in Section 3.2, HEADER
FIELD DEFINITIONS.
--
Steven E. Harris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-12 17:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-11 16:45 gnus-posting-styles Hadron Quark
2006-05-11 17:36 ` gnus-posting-styles Steven E. Harris
2006-05-11 21:35 ` gnus-posting-styles Hadron Quark
2006-05-12 17:53 ` Steven E. Harris [this message]
2006-05-11 18:42 ` gnus-posting-styles Reiner Steib
2006-05-11 21:28 ` gnus-posting-styles Hadron Quark
2006-05-11 21:44 ` gnus-posting-styles Adam Sjøgren
2006-05-11 22:06 ` gnus-posting-styles Hadron Quark
2006-05-11 22:31 ` gnus-posting-styles Adam Sjøgren
2006-05-11 22:34 ` gnus-posting-styles Reiner Steib
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-09-21 6:41 gnus-posting-styles John
2005-09-21 12:35 ` gnus-posting-styles Glyn Millington
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