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Re: ae bug reporters e-mail address



On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Duncan Findlay wrote:

> 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)

Have to go to work right now, but I'll try it this afternoon. 

Thanks,

Dwarf
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