From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:45:50 GMT
Subject: Re: email address handling
Message-ID: <20080801124550.26b9efc0.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0808011229400.3277@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>

On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 12:34:58 -0700 (PDT)
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> And Andrew, this is true of Signed-off-by: lines too, btw. If you actually 
> want to send emails to them, _then_ you need to add quotes to follow the 
> email rules. 

That's how I noticed it - copied, pasted, MTA barfed.

Converting a usable name+email-address into an unusable one seems ... unuseful.