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Re: [Nmh-workers] Thoughts: header/address parsing
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Jon Fairbairn |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] Thoughts: header/address parsing |
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Mon, 04 Aug 2014 14:53:02 +0100 |
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Ken Hornstein <address@hidden> writes:
> I was under the impression that even back in the day, that format was not
> common. If you've got mail that old, would you care to check and see how
> much you have with addresses like that?
It looks like the peak was in 1995 (in my kept mail). Owing to a
series of unfortunate events, I don’t have any mail from before
about 1989, but for what I do have, it was low then, increased
to 1995 and tailed off again, with hardly any after 2005.
As to proportions, I have about 1800 messages (out of something
like 50000 total) with () in the addresses, but some of those
really are comments (and some a bit more ambiguous, such as
address@hidden (Mail Delivery Subsystem) where one could split
hairs about whether that was a comment or the entity’s name),
but I haven’t worked out what the proportion was in 1995.
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Jón Fairbairn address@hidden
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Thoughts: header/address parsing, (continued)
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Thoughts: header/address parsing, Robert Elz, 2014/08/03
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Thoughts: header/address parsing, Paul Fox, 2014/08/04
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Thoughts: header/address parsing, Ken Hornstein, 2014/08/04
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Thoughts: header/address parsing, Ralph Corderoy, 2014/08/05
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- Re: [Nmh-workers] Thoughts: header/address parsing, Ralph Corderoy, 2014/08/05
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