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- From: "G. Del Merritt" <del@giant.IntraNet.com>
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.mx
- Subject: Re: VMS MAIL personal names / From: lines
- Message-ID: <0096365F298D0860.25000F09@giant.IntraNet.com>
- Date: 10 Nov 1992 09:01:25 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Mx-List<==>Vmsnet.Mail.Mx Gateway
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- In-reply-to: UUCP%"carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU" 's message of 10-NOV-1992
- 06:59:46.96
- >In article <0096365E.615FEA60.12219@EIMONI.TUWIEN.AC.AT>, "Franz
- >>I'm using MX V3.1C, VMS 5.5-1 and i have set a personal name in
- >>VMS-mail. When i send a message out it appears as
- >>From: "Franz Schoenbauer,Computer Science,Vienna,Austria, +43-1-58801-4126"
- > ^ ^ ^
- >> <system@EIMONI.TUWIEN.AC.AT>
- >
- >No. The commas aren't allowed. The basic format is fine, but you can't use
- >special characters ("(", ")", "<", ">", "@", ",", ";", ":", "\", ".",
- >"[", "]", or the quote character (") itself) in your personal name.
-
- Goodness; this seems quite foolish, and I know that I've seen "."'s in
- personal names before. Mine happens to be an example; have I been
- able, as a mere mortal, to break other folk's mailers with my personal
- name? Or have I simply taken this problem response too much out of
- it's original context? Parsing quoted strings is a pain, but one
- which (I thought) has been long and oft solved in the annals of
- computer science.
-
- Do you instead refer to the class of _unquoted_ personal names. Your
- rules on special characters make sense as exemplified by:
-
- From: My name without special characters <bland@mycorp.com>
-
- versus:
-
- From: "My name, with special, pleasing characters..." <neat@mycorp.com>
-
- It thus becomes the mailer's duty to decide whether or not a
- particular personal name requires quoting, not the poor, befuddled
- luser.
-
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