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Re: What shall we do with the GECOS field again?

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Sep 19, 2005, 16:06 UTC
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Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:
>   Well, I have to say that from the GECOS fields I saw, none use that
> format, but a lot of them used the realname,phone,something,phone,...
> format.
>   Opinions?

If the real world GECOS were either only plain and name,room,blah,... format as you say and assume I think a heuristics like you suggested would be better than the current heuristics of assuming everything is a name, but I haven't seen what "angry mob" actually has so cannot judge.

What do popular MUAs do to come up with the real-name fields? Don't they face the same problem, trying to using GECOS?

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