From: Kai Henningsen (kaih@khms.westfalen.de)
Date: Sun Nov 02 1997 - 10:02:00 CST
rra@stanford.edu (Russ Allbery) wrote on 21.10.97 in <m3zpo3o4tl.fsf@windlord.Stanford.EDU>:
> Uh-huh. Comments inside message IDs is a bit more than "just a coding
> exercise." Trying to strip possibly nested comments from From headers
> while trying to preserve some comment of "name" is a bit more than "just a
Uh-oh. Button trigger time.
Putting Names In Comments Instead Of Phrases Has Always Been An Extremely
Stupid Idea, And Should Be Stamped Out As Fast And Wide As Possible.
Better Yesterday Than Tomorrow.
See your own comment about all-caps.
> coding exercise." This sort of arrogant attitude is precisely why the
> comment syntax in RFC 822 has been widely ignored in gateway
> implementation and widely hailed as broken.
Sorry, but parsing 822 comments is _really_ pretty easy. People usually
get it wrong because they don't read the standard, or because they make
unjustified assumptions.
Sure, it's more than regular expressions. You also need a counter. Big
deal.
There _is_ complicated stuff in 822, but this isn't it. Look at groups for
an example.
MfG Kai