[Not clear on why this is on ietf-smtp instead of ietf-822, but anyway...]
On 12/3/07 at 7:53 PM +0100, Frank Ellermann wrote:
Paul Smith wrote:
syntactically correct formations of the line could be:
From: "Joe (Joseph) Bloggs" <joe(_at_)joe(_dot_)com>
or
From: (Joe \(Joseph\) Bloggs) joe(_at_)joe(_dot_)com
or even
From: Joe (\(Joseph\)) Bloggs <joe(_at_)joe(_dot_)com>
Or From: "Joe \(Joseph\) Bloggs" <joe(_at_)example>
or From: Joe (Joseph) Bloggs <joe(_at_)example>
or From: Joe "\(Joseph\)" Bloggs <joe(_at_)example(_dot_)com>
or From: Joe "(Joseph)" Bloggs <joe(_at_)example(_dot_)com>
But Frank is exactly right: The original thing is not a legal phrase
in any of these standards.
pr
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