Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 09 Feb 2011 19:17:52 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: [PATCH]move double quotation marks so that keep MAINTAINERS consistent | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 19:06:31 -0800
> I suspect that some mail clients will explode if you provide them with > an unquoted string containing periods. That would make copy-n-paste > rather a hassle.
It's not clients, it's servers.
SMTP rules state that characters such as "." cannot appear unquoted in email headers.
vger.kernel.org rejects mail when this violation occurs.
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