From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: email address handling Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 13:41:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <20080731194042.a1534b4d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080801124550.26b9efc0.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080801131127.20b3acfd.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080801132415.0b0314e4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Morton X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Aug 01 22:42:39 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KP1SM-00074F-KV for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:42:35 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757325AbYHAUld (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2008 16:41:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757212AbYHAUld (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2008 16:41:33 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:40539 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756949AbYHAUlc (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2008 16:41:32 -0400 Received: from imap1.linux-foundation.org (imap1.linux-foundation.org [140.211.169.55]) by smtp1.linux-foundation.org (8.14.2/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id m71KfVl6001890 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 1 Aug 2008 13:41:32 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by imap1.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id m71KfUSa001991; Fri, 1 Aug 2008 13:41:30 -0700 In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.412 required=5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.4-osdl_revision__1.47__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: lf$Revision: 1.188 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 140.211.169.13 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > If you want to turn it into emails, you need to follow the email rules. > You're cutting-and-pasting anyway, it's not like this is fundamentally > hard. Btw, if sending emails was the _only_ thing that Author line was used for, or even the main thing, then it would make sense to keep it in some email format. But it really isn't. Sending emails to people is the _least_ common thing you do with it. Most of the time you just want to see the name in a nice readable format. Linus