From: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com, joe@perches.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: MAINTAINERS: standardize James Bottomley's name
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 23:22:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200908032322.14549.elendil@planet.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A77509A.3010401@zytor.com>
H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Now, obs- usually indicates an obsolete (deprecated
> backwards-compatibility) production, but the text states:
>
> Note: The "period" (or "full stop") character (".") in obs-phrase is
> not a form that was allowed in earlier versions of this or any other
> standard. Period (nor any other character from specials) was not
> allowed in phrase because it introduced a parsing difficulty
> distinguishing between phrases and portions of an addr-spec (see
> section 4.4). It appears here because the period character is
> currently used in many messages in the display-name portion of
> addresses, especially for initials in names, and therefore must be
> interpreted properly. In the future, period may appear in the
> regular syntax of phrase.
Interesting.
Does that mean that vger can stop refusing mails because they include an
address that has an unquoted name with initials?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-03 21:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-03 20:32 MAINTAINERS: standardize James Bottomley's name Joe Perches
2009-08-03 20:43 ` James Bottomley
2009-08-03 21:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-08-03 21:22 ` Frans Pop [this message]
2009-08-03 22:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-08-03 21:11 ` Joe Perches
2009-08-03 21:29 ` James Bottomley
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