Re: Automating the upload process

[kai@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen)]

bruce@Pixar.com (Bruce Perens)  wrote on 19.02.96 in <[🔎] m0togRE-00063cC@mongo.pixar.com>:

> That's fine. In general the address in that field already works for mail,
> though the program has to understand old-format email addresses with angle
> brackets around them.

Umm ... let me point out that under RFC 822,

User Name <login@host.domain>

and

login@host.domain (User Name)

are both legal and canonical. There are also some other legal, but less  
nice-looking forms.

And in fact, both do work.

MfG Kai