[imp] Commas vs. Semi-Colons

[Rich Lafferty]

On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 06:13:29PM -0800, hhoffman@r-u-i.com (hhoffman@r-u-i.com) wrote:
> Hey Rich,
>
>    I was just thinking a little bit more about this and wanted to
> pick your brain a bit if you don't mind? If I did write a JS routine
> to change the semicolon's in the personal contacts to commas in the
> To:'s then I would be in compliance with Internet standards, right?

Nope. Here's a legal group of addresses in a To: header:

To: my-quilting-buddies: foo@hotmail.com, quilts@yahoo.com; rich@bob.ca

which sends mail to the three addresses there, and notes for the
recipient that "foo@hotmail.com" and "quilts@yahoo.com" are a group
called "my-quilting-buddies". 

Of course, your particular site might find that useless, and might
find a Javascript routine to change semicolons to commas useful. In
that case, it'd be a good idea for you to write that; but since it's
something useful to you locally that breaks existing standards, it'd
be a bad idea to include it in out-of-the-box IMP.

  -Rich

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