Re: email address handling

Btw, the real issue here is

 - why do you want to make things uglier and make up stupid rules that are 
   irrelevant to git, just for something that you admit you hadn't ever 
   even _noticed_ until now, and now that you know about it it's not even 
   a problem any more?

especially as

 - we know people won't do the quoting _anyway_, since we actually have 
   tons of examples of that in the kernel as-is. 

Quoting should be for _tools_, not for people. And even if we did it, we probably wouldn't be fully rfc2822-compliant anyway, because anybody sane would decide to not quote '@' and '.', rigth?

Because those don't actually really have special meaning (yeah, they are "special" characters in rfc-2822, but nobody cares, and the MUA can do it for us, no)?

So now we'd actually not really be rfc-compliant _anyway_, because everybody really realizes just how annoying that would really be.

		Linus