Re: email address handling

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To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@...>, Junio C Hamano <gitster@...>, <git@...>
Date: Friday, August 1, 2008 - 6:39 pm

Btw, the real issue here is

 - why do you want to make things uglier and make up stupid rules that are 
   irrelevant to git, just for something that you admit you hadn't ever 
   even _noticed_ until now, and now that you know about it it's not even 
   a problem any more?

especially as

 - we know people won't do the quoting _anyway_, since we actually have 
   tons of examples of that in the kernel as-is. 

Quoting should be for _tools_, not for people. And even if we did it, we 
probably wouldn't be fully rfc2822-compliant anyway, because anybody sane 
would decide to not quote '@' and '.', rigth?

Because those don't actually really have special meaning (yeah, they are 
"special" characters in rfc-2822, but nobody cares, and the MUA can do it 
for us, no)?

So now we'd actually not really be rfc-compliant _anyway_, because 
everybody really realizes just how annoying that would really be.

		Linus
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email address handling, Andrew Morton, (Thu Jul 31, 10:40 pm)
Re: email address handling, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Aug 1, 3:34 pm)
Re: email address handling, Andrew Morton, (Fri Aug 1, 3:45 pm)
Re: email address handling, Junio C Hamano, (Fri Aug 1, 4:00 pm)
Re: email address handling, Andrew Morton, (Fri Aug 1, 4:14 pm)
Re: email address handling, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Aug 1, 3:56 pm)
Re: email address handling, Andrew Morton, (Fri Aug 1, 4:11 pm)
Re: email address handling, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Aug 1, 4:17 pm)
Re: email address handling, Andrew Morton, (Fri Aug 1, 4:24 pm)
Re: email address handling, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Aug 1, 4:40 pm)
Re: email address handling, Andrew Morton, (Fri Aug 1, 4:54 pm)
Re: email address handling, Junio C Hamano, (Fri Aug 1, 5:50 pm)
Re: email address handling, Andrew Morton, (Fri Aug 1, 5:58 pm)
Re: email address handling, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Aug 1, 6:23 pm)
Re: email address handling, Andrew Morton, (Fri Aug 1, 6:41 pm)
Re: email address handling, Theodore Tso, (Fri Aug 1, 6:15 pm)
Re: email address handling, Andrew Morton, (Fri Aug 1, 6:27 pm)
Re: email address handling, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Aug 1, 6:39 pm)
Re: email address handling, Andrew Morton, (Fri Aug 1, 6:49 pm)
Re: email address handling, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Aug 1, 6:55 pm)
Re: email address handling, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Aug 1, 7:16 pm)
Re: email address handling, Johannes Schindelin, (Sat Aug 2, 7:31 am)
Re: email address handling, Linus Torvalds, (Sat Aug 2, 12:20 pm)
Re: email address handling, Junio C Hamano, (Sat Aug 2, 1:50 pm)
Re: email address handling, Junio C Hamano, (Sat Aug 2, 12:40 pm)
Re: email address handling, Junio C Hamano, (Sat Aug 2, 12:42 pm)
Re: email address handling, Junio C Hamano, (Sat Aug 2, 12:36 pm)
Re: email address handling, Johannes Schindelin, (Sat Aug 2, 12:59 pm)
Re: email address handling, Linus Torvalds, (Sat Aug 2, 1:08 pm)
Re: email address handling, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Aug 1, 6:34 pm)
Re: email address handling, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Aug 1, 6:49 pm)
Re: email address handling, Karl , (Mon Aug 4, 4:14 pm)
Re: email address handling, Andrew Morton, (Fri Aug 1, 6:44 pm)
Re: email address handling, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Aug 1, 6:52 pm)
Re: email address handling, Andrew Morton, (Fri Aug 1, 7:00 pm)
Re: email address handling, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Aug 1, 5:12 pm)
Re: email address handling, Johannes Schindelin, (Fri Aug 1, 5:16 pm)
Re: email address handling, Junio C Hamano, (Fri Aug 1, 5:25 pm)
Re: email address handling, Johannes Schindelin, (Sat Aug 2, 7:03 am)
Re: email address handling, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Aug 1, 4:41 pm)
Re: email address handling, Junio C Hamano, (Fri Aug 1, 4:07 pm)