IETF Logo Mail Archive

history of using a comment for display-name?

Sam Roberts <sroberts@uniserve.com> Sun, 11 March 2001 17:28 UTC

Received: from cs.utk.edu (cs.utk.edu [160.36.56.56]) by ietf.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1a) with SMTP id MAA12328 for <drums-archive@odin.ietf.org>; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 12:28:30 -0500 (EST)
Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by cs.utk.edu with SMTP (cf v2.9s-UTK) id MAA09111; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 12:26:11 -0500 (EST)
Received: by cs.utk.edu (bulk_mailer v1.13); Sun, 11 Mar 2001 12:26:03 -0500
Received: by cs.utk.edu (cf v2.9s-UTK) id MAA09013; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 12:26:02 -0500 (EST)
Received: from tomts6-srv.bellnexxia.net (marvin@localhost) by cs.utk.edu with ESMTP (cf v2.9s-UTK) id MAA08959; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 12:25:59 -0500 (EST)
Received: from tomts6-srv.bellnexxia.net (209.226.175.26 -> smtp.bellnexxia.net) by cs.utk.edu (smtpshim v1.0); Sun, 11 Mar 2001 12:25:59 -0500
Received: from localhost ([64.229.75.168]) by tomts6-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with SMTP id <20010311172557.GWIT21945.tomts6-srv.bellnexxia.net@localhost> for <drums@cs.utk.edu>; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 12:25:57 -0500
Received: (nullmailer pid 6819895 invoked by uid 100); Sun, 11 Mar 2001 17:27:24 -0000
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 12:27:23 -0500
From: Sam Roberts <sroberts@uniserve.com>
To: drums@cs.utk.edu
Subject: history of using a comment for display-name?
Message-ID: <20010311122723.A6660146@localhost>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Disposition: inline
User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.16i
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:drums-request@cs.utk.edu?Subject=unsubscribe>

Does anybody know when the habit of using a comment after
the addr-spec started? It seems strange to me that
anybody would do that, when RFC 822 already had a way to
associate a phrase with an address.

Did the practice predate the rfc? It seems brain-damaged.

Sam

-- 
Sam Roberts <sroberts@uniserve.com> (http://www.emyr.net/Sam)

v2.23.0 | Report a Bug | By Email