Re: email address handling

> Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Name is used not just for pasting into your MUA.  For example, if your
> shortlog output showed this, it would be "funny looking":
> 
>     "Zhang, Rui" (4):
>             ...
> 
>     Andrew Morton (20):
>             ...
>             ...