Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!watmath!julian!uwovax!miller From: miller@uwovax.uwo.ca (Greg Miller) Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers Subject: Re: RFC-822 'phrase' question Message-ID: <2377@uwovax.uwo.ca> Date: 26 Jun 89 10:31:10 GMT References: <43c2245d.129dc@blue.engin.umich.edu> <1760002@hp-ses.SDE.HP.COM> <399@linus.SLCS.SLB.COM> Lines: 13 Organisation: University of Western Ontario, LONDON, ON 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 => > 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" //Greg Miller//