From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/7319 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Steven E. Harris" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: gnus-posting-styles Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 10:53:09 -0700 Organization: SEH Labs Message-ID: <831wuzjfju.fsf@torus.sehlabs.com> References: <87bqu44ik1.fsf@gmail.com> <87psikdz3t.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1147459245 18923 80.91.229.2 (12 May 2006 18:40:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 18:40:45 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 12 20:40:43 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FecYv-0003xL-GJ for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 May 2006 20:40:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FecYu-0006JR-W8 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 May 2006 14:40:29 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!newscon06.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.net!newsfeed-00.mathworks.com!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-6-187-174.sd.sd.cox.net Original-X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1147456388 5017 68.6.187.174 (12 May 2006 17:53:08 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 17:53:08 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) XEmacs/21.4.13 (cygwin32) Cancel-Lock: sha1:S05VWlK7ttgskw3Xdf4id2c+6nI= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:77502 Original-To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:7319 Archived-At: Hadron Quark 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