From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: jiaweiwei.xiyou@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
joe@perches.com, greg@kroah.com, rdunlap@xenotime.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH]move double quotation marks so that keep MAINTAINERS consistent
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 19:17:52 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110209.191752.226762899.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110209190631.f29419ef.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 19:06:31 -0800
> I suspect that some mail clients will explode if you provide them with
> an unquoted string containing periods. That would make copy-n-paste
> rather a hassle.
It's not clients, it's servers.
SMTP rules state that characters such as "." cannot appear
unquoted in email headers.
vger.kernel.org rejects mail when this violation occurs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-10 3:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-10 2:51 Harry Wei
2011-02-10 3:05 ` Greg KH
[not found] ` <AANLkTi=vV7xeeodvfEj_GV_7RO+Kp3WBpf9YRLLAPCBY@mail.gmail.com>
2011-02-10 3:16 ` Fwd: " Harry Wei
2011-02-10 3:06 ` Andrew Morton
2011-02-10 3:17 ` David Miller [this message]
2011-02-19 16:48 ` Pavel Machek
2011-02-19 21:59 ` Joe Perches
[not found] ` <AANLkTi=DbJUFfKA9EMnaUm89Fk2OEDWo64-Lu5H8Yjjv@mail.gmail.com>
2011-02-20 2:48 ` Fwd: " Harry Wei
2011-02-20 4:46 ` [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Quote non-alphanumeric email addresses Joe Perches
2011-02-20 13:20 ` Harry Wei
2011-02-20 13:59 ` Harry Wei
2011-02-20 16:00 ` Joe Perches
[not found] ` <AANLkTi=qeg6jUBY-D68EW3bK_6EZRrXBE+JRj6GO92v2@mail.gmail.com>
2011-02-21 5:07 ` Fwd: " Harry Wei
2011-02-22 9:28 ` [PATCH]move double quotation marks so that keep MAINTAINERS consistent Florian Mickler
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