Re: email address handling

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Aug 1, 2008, 19:56 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0808011253580.3277@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080801124550.26b9efc0.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:

> 
> That's how I noticed it - copied, pasted, MTA barfed.
> 
> Converting a usable name+email-address into an unusable one seems ... unuseful.

Umm. Those signed-off ones weren't even _converted_ They were written by people.

Also, you seemed to miss the point that it's not a name+email-address.

It's a name. Oh, and there's an email address too. But they aren't connected. We often just print out the name *without* the email address. Why should those things have to know about some totally irrelevant email quoting rules? They weren't emails, didn't know about it, and didn't care.

			Linus