Re: What shall we do with the GECOS field again?

Petr Baudis [off-list ref] writes:

  Well, I have to say that from the GECOS fields I saw, none use that
format, but a lot of them used the realname,phone,something,phone,...
format.

  Opinions?

If the real world GECOS were either only plain and
name,room,blah,... format as you say and assume I think a
heuristics like you suggested would be better than the
current heuristics of assuming everything is a name, but I
haven't seen what "angry mob" actually has so cannot judge.

What do popular MUAs do to come up with the real-name fields?
Don't they face the same problem, trying to using GECOS?