linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH]move double quotation marks so that keep MAINTAINERS consistent

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Date:	Wed, 09 Feb 2011 19:17:52 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	jiaweiwei.xiyou@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	joe@...ches.com, greg@...ah.com, rdunlap@...otime.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH]move double quotation marks so that keep MAINTAINERS
 consistent

From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-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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