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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?

  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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