Re: history of using a comment for display-name?
Sam Roberts <sroberts@uniserve.com> Tue, 13 March 2001 05:45 UTC
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From: Sam Roberts <sroberts@uniserve.com>
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Subject: Re: history of using a comment for display-name?
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In-Reply-To: <52E28A515344104299B5E7AABC32045FD5036D@df-goofy.dogfood>; from larryo@Exchange.Microsoft.com on Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 08:57:12PM -0800
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Quoting Larry Osterman <larryo@Exchange.Microsoft.com>, who wrote: > And then there's my old friend (used by a popular client at one point) > > From: Foo@domain (Return Reciept Requested) > > And if anyone cares (and probably nobody does), this is why Microsoft > Exchange explicitly ignores the "names in comments" convention - Before > we shipped Exchange 4.0 we promoted the comment field to the "phrase" > (if none was given) but one of our customers was using the > "RRR-in-a-comment" client, so we pulled the functionality). I care, I just implemented the same thing 3 hours ago! Should I back out my changes? Is it really that common? Is it mostly a problem for clients that hide the email address from you, and just show the display-name if it's present? Sam -- Sam Roberts <sroberts@uniserve.com> (http://www.emyr.net/Sam)
- history of using a comment for display-name? Sam Roberts
- Re: history of using a comment for display-name? Dave Crocker
- Re: history of using a comment for display-name? Maynard Kang
- Re: history of using a comment for display-name? Keith Moore
- Re: history of using a comment for display-name? Robert Elz
- Re: history of using a comment for display-name? Maynard Kang
- Re: history of using a comment for display-name? Keith Moore
- Re: history of using a comment for display-name? Maynard Kang
- RE: history of using a comment for display-name? Larry Osterman
- Re: history of using a comment for display-name? Sam Roberts
- Re: history of using a comment for display-name? Keith Moore
- Re: history of using a comment for display-name? Michael Richardson
- Re: history of using a comment for display-name? Larry Campbell
- Re: history of using a comment for display-name? Laurence Lundblade
- Re: history of using a comment for display-name? Kai Henningsen