Hi there!
On 21 Jan 00, at 15:49, Douglas Hinds wrote
about "Re[2]: Ctrl-F4":
> SL> That technical requirement doesn't exist in email. I am
> SL> [EMAIL PROTECTED] That is all that is needed to route mail to
> SL> me. The name in front is a comment, nothing more. However, having
> SL> a comment mismatched with an email address causes confusion, may
> SL> be what people don't want, and is SEVERELY frowned upon.
>
> Interesting logic. I wonder how many other TUBDL subscribers share
> that concern.
I do. Two reasons:
1. It's written in RFC822 and the succeeding ones;-) To put it in less technical
way, all the data _but_ that inside <...> is optional and is generally of a
comment nature. Stricktly speaking, the data enclosed in "..." quotes is a
"string", whereas the data in (...) is defined as "comment", but *both* types of
data can and might be omitted. In other words, these are not required. These
are optional. But this does _not_ mean that I can use them like I want. This is
a matter of netiquette. To USA residents: what about the (technically, correct!)
address:
"Bullp*nis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(well, my apologies, but I had to make the point!)
But well, I'd say, TB does something like that by default;-)
2. As Steve has already pointed out, the addresses like
"Alexander V. Kiselev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
get filled into the MRU list, where from TB gets them for autocompletion. This
*is* a _severe_ bug, regardless of what you think about it. And since it is a
bug, it *has* to be fixed.
Personally, the second reason above is a major one for me.
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