Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 19:17:52 -0800 (PST)
Message-Id: <20110209.191752.226762899.davem@davemloft.net>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: jiaweiwei.xiyou@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, joe@perches.com,
        greg@kroah.com, rdunlap@xenotime.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH]move double quotation marks so that keep MAINTAINERS
 consistent
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
In-Reply-To: <20110209190631.f29419ef.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
References: <20110210025133.GA3285@gmail.com>
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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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