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From: barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Standardizing Email?
Message-ID: <26548@think.UUCP>
Date: 26 Aug 88 15:54:11 GMT
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In article <727@etive.ed.ac.uk> jcb@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Julian Bradfield) writes:
>In article <26196@think.UUCP> barmar@kulla.think.com.UUCP (Barry Margolin) writes:
>>For example, one of the formats is simply the recipient's personal
>>name (structured into Surname, Given name, Initials, Generational
>>qualifier), but you'd probably need to augment it with other
>I hope that structuring is just one of many possibilities for the
>structure of a personal name field---otherwise it's not exactly
>standard! 

I think that's the only format specified by the standard.  What else
do you need?  I realize that there's no title (Doctor, Ph.D., etc),
but that isn't really needed to identify a person, it's an honorific
designation.

Actually, I made one transcription mistake.  The standard says "Given
name(s)", so if full middle names are necessary to identify someone
they may be given.

Barry Margolin
Thinking Machines Corp.

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