Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site hou3c.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!don.provan@CMU-CS-A.ARPA From: don.provan@CMU-CS-A.ARPA Newsgroups: net.mail.msggroup Subject: quoted names Message-ID: <15Oct84.124754.DP0N@CMU-CS-A.ARPA> Date: Mon, 15-Oct-84 12:47:00 EDT Article-I.D.: hou3c.873 Posted: Mon Oct 15 12:47:00 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 21-Oct-84 05:57:42 EDT Sender: ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist) Lines: 19 To: msggroup@BRL.ARPA I've seen this problem a couple of times, including once last night, so perhaps it's time to talk about it. Apparently, someone (at SIMTEL20) told their mailer to send mail to '"Webb Mike"@lll-mfe' with the single quotes being mine. the mailer, spotting the double quotes, said "ah ha! those are not legal, so I must quote them." my mailer dutifully removed the quotes of the quotes, looked at the string '"Webb Mike"' and said "I see no one here by that name," since none of our names have double quotes. I guess I just want to start some discussion on what went wrong here and what we can do about it. I don't see any reason for me not to run the destination mail box through the dequoter until it finds no more quotes, but since I don't control all the names our mail receiver handles, that means I'm restricting the names other sites here can use. On the other end, I can tell our users to give out names like Webb Mike without quotes, but i assume this will not be understood by most mailers (although there are still a lot of mailers that can't handle the quotes, either.)