From: Linus Torvalds Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:56:44 GMT Subject: Re: email address handling Message-ID: 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