From: Linus Torvalds Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:34:16 GMT Subject: Re: email address handling Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20080801152720.56dbff09.akpm@linux-foundation.org> On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: > > And the existing .mailmap appears to have taken care that all the > "name" parts are in an MUA-usable form. There are no periods or > commas. Umm. Or quotes? I don't think so. Or even periods? You must not have looked at things, I found one at the very first screenful. Ed L. Cashin Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso S.Çağlar Onur adn that's just basically ignoring the fact that we only add mailmap entries for people who can't get it right other ways (where admittedly sometimes the "can't get it right" comes from the people in between: poor Çağlar has had his name corrupted so many times that it's funny). Linus