----- Original Message ----- From: "François Pinard" <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> To: "Barry A. Warsaw" <barry@zope.com> Cc: <python-list@python.org>; <python-dev@python.org> Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 7:05 PM Subject: [Python-Dev] Re: PEP 1, PEP Purpose and Guidelines > [Barry A. Warsaw] > > > It has been a while since I posted a copy of PEP 1 to the mailing > > lists and newsgroups. > > Thanks for giving me this opportunity. There is a tiny detail that > bothers me: > > > The format of the author entry should be > > address@dom.ain (Random J. User) > > if the email address is included, and just > > Random J. User > > if the address is not given. > > This makes me jump fifteen years behind (or so, I do not remember times), > at the time of the great push so the Internet prefers: > > Random J. User <address@dom.ain> > > It is more reasonable to always give the real name, optionally followed by > an email, that to consider that the real name is a mere comment for the > email address. Oh, I know some hackers who praise themselves as login > names or dream having positronic brains :-), but most of us are humans > before anything else! > > Could the PEP be reformulated, at least, for leaving the choice opened? > Should we instead say that any acceptable RFC822 address would be an acceptable alternative for a simple name? If so you'd get naiive mail users complaining that they couldn't reach "@python.org:sholden@holdenweb.com" (for example). I don't really see why the address format has to agree with any particular other format: if you're going to use it in a program then there's no reason why you shouldn't mangle it into whatever form you (or your possibly-crippled software) requires :-) The major benefit of the present situation is that it's well-defined. I don't feel additional alternatived would be helpful here, especially when the existing format is RFC822-compliant. though-i-admit-i'm-not-up-to-speed-on-rfc2822-ly y'rs - steve ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Holden http://www.holdenweb.com/ Python Web Programming http://pydish.holdenweb.com/pwp/ -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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