Re: RFC-822 'phrase' question

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From: Greg Miller
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1989 10:31

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In article <399@linus.SLCS.SLB.COM>, 7thson@daffy.slcs.slb.com (Chris Garrigues) writes:
> and a parse tree of the sample given above:
> 	From: John Q. Public <JPQ@MIT-AI.ARPA>	=>
> What's the problem?

The problem is that unquoted periods in the name tag are not allowed
by RFC 822.

So the above should be written as -

        From: "John Q. Public" <JPQ@MIT-AI.ARPA>

//Greg Miller//

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From: miller@uwovax.uwo.ca (Greg Miller)
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Subject: Re: RFC-822 'phrase' question
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Date: 26 Jun 89 10:31:10 GMT
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