From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754894AbZHCWD4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Aug 2009 18:03:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754667AbZHCWDz (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Aug 2009 18:03:55 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:41983 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751048AbZHCWDz (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Aug 2009 18:03:55 -0400 Message-ID: <4A775EC5.6060003@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:03:49 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090513 Fedora/3.0-2.3.beta2.fc11 Thunderbird/3.0b2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Frans Pop CC: James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com, joe@perches.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: MAINTAINERS: standardize James Bottomley's name References: <1249331570.5149.48.camel@Joe-Laptop.home> <1249332233.3943.211.camel@mulgrave.site> <1249332233.3943.211.camel@mulgrave.site> <4A77509A.3010401@zytor.com> <200908032322.14549.elendil@planet.nl> In-Reply-To: <200908032322.14549.elendil@planet.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 08/03/2009 02:22 PM, Frans Pop wrote: > 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? If it does it's not RFC 2822 compliant. -hpa