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To: Jamie Zawinski <jwz@netscape.com>
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Subject: Re: mail-extract-address-components bug?
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From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Date: 22 Sep 1997 19:33:05 +0200
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Jamie Zawinski <jwz@netscape.com> writes:

> > Of what use this is to anyone, I cannot fathom.  Jamie, do you
> > remember what this was for?
> 
> This is an ancient, ancient Unixism.  Ampersands in /etc/passwd
> really do work that way, and it used to be that one would commonly
> see that cruft show up in mail headers too.

Do you think the substitution has any value now?

-- 
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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