From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 16:06:21 GMT
Subject: Re: What shall we do with the GECOS field again?
Message-ID: <7vll1trqiq.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050919134838.GC2903@pasky.or.cz>

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?