Re: email address handling

Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] writes:

On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:

quoted

That's how I noticed it - copied, pasted, MTA barfed.

Converting a usable name+email-address into an unusable one seems ... unuseful.

Umm. Those signed-off ones weren't even _converted_ They were written by 
people.

Also, you seemed to miss the point that it's not a name+email-address. 

It's a name. Oh, and there's an email address too. But they aren't 
connected. We often just print out the name *without* the email address. 
Why should those things have to know about some totally irrelevant email 
quoting rules? They weren't emails, didn't know about it, and didn't care.

One place that can matter is git-send-email.perl; IIRC, it reads from the
S-o-b:, Cc: and From: lines people write, and these follow "name next to
address, that does not care irrelevant email quoting rules" format.  I do
not think send-email currently does much about quoting them, but I think
it should be the right place to do so.