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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: ALSA official git repository
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To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
>
> > which means that the algorithm for identifying the author is "the final
> > From:".
> 
> No, the algorithm is:
>  - the email author, _or_ if there is one, the top "From:" in the body.

That all assumes that the tools are smart enough to separate the email
headers from the body :(