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To: Colin Rafferty <craffert@ml.com>
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Subject: Re: mail-extract-address-components bug? 
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From: Raymond Toy <toy@rtp.ericsson.se>


>>>>> "Colin" == Colin Rafferty <craffert@ml.com> writes:


    Colin> Believe it or not, this is correct.  I assume it has something to do
    Colin> with a false sense of saving bandwidth.

    Colin> The really foolish thing about it is that RFC 822 is filled with
    Colin> examples that use `&' in the "To:" in the expected sense.

    Colin> If someone could tell me how this bogosity started, I would really
    Colin> appreciate it.

I think it has to do with using '&' in passwd files as a shortcut for
the user id.  It was used in the name field of the person's passwd
entry.  

There was some discussion about this on the bbdb list quite a while
back.

Ray

