Re: [Evolution] "Why I hate Outlook"

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj stampede org>]

I believe the problem is now fixed, btw
I guess I'll see once this is sent

Jeff

On Thu, 04 May 2000, Jamie Zawinski wrote:
> Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 20:43:16 -0700
> To: fejj stampede org
> From: Jamie Zawinski <jwz jwz org>
> Subject: Re: [Evolution] "Why I hate Outlook"
>
> Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > btw, what's so evil about a semicolon? :)
>
> Uh, it doesn't do what you think it does?
>
> > better than ILOVEYOU :-)
>
> That at least did what its author intended it to.
>
>       To: John <jsk29 cornell edu>; evolution helixcode com
>
> is garbage -- that doesn't parse, according to RFC 822, because there
> was no ":" before the addr-spec.  You wanted a comma there.  The only
> legal non-quoted use of ";" is to terminate a "group" of addresses,
> like:
>
>       To: some losers: loser one, loser two; someone else
>
> but of course just about no MUA in the world correctly parses that
> latter form correctly either, so basically, using a ";" in an address
> field is painting a big old kick-me sign on your back.
>
> Mmmm, more RFC822 landmines...
>
> -- 
> Jamie Zawinski
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