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Re: ae bug reporters e-mail address



On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 09:51:17PM -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> I've been getting a lot of bug reports from a guy who gives his e-mail
> address as "der.hans<bugs@LuftHans.com".
> 
> Now, I'd like to send this guy an e-mail and ask that he stop doing this,
> as it just makes useless work for me and he is never going to get a
> "fixed" package, but the "<" in the address causes pine to object about an
> unbound address (i.e. no closing ">")
> 
> Is this a "valid" address? How do I cope with it? (I guess I could telnet
> to the mail server and bypass pine's checking, but that sounds like real
> work ;-)
> 

How about sending messages to #######-submitter@bugs.debian.org? I am
reasonably sure that the e-mail address is invalid, but I'm not very
familiar with the RFCs. (I think its RFC 2822)

-- 
Duncan Findlay



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