From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clerew.man.ac.uk)
Date: Tue May 13 2003 - 05:26:50 CDT
In <HErqsz.47o@clerew.man.ac.uk> "Charles Lindsey" <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk> writes:
>And I am interested to hear reports of how the version posted to misc.test
>appeared on your sites. The Message-ID for that one was
><HEMBEJ.BM3@clerew.man.ac.uk>.
Two reports received, quoting views seen at 5 news servers. All showing
Charles H. Lindsey without quote marks. So it is clear that such phrases
propagate through Usenet without problem (no surprise there) and that at
least two news reading agents display them as received (again no huge
surprise).
>But even if such headers arrive more-or-less intact and get displayed, the
>real test of whether they get parsed correctly is whether user agents that
>receive them can extract the mail address from them in order to generate a
>reply. So for my next test, I shall include the line
>Reply-To: Charles H. Lindsey <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk>
>and I shall invite you to reply to it, and I shall see whether it arrives.
OK, I have just sent that test (look out for "Phrase Test 3"). I shall
do the same via misc.test too.
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