Re: [Nmh-workers] RFC 5322 group support

[David Levine]

> >I vote for just updating the documentation.  Because the
> >trailing semicolon isn't required, maybe we shouldn't call
> >it group support, just blind list?  And maybe that would
> >avoid Ralph's objection?
> 
> I'm not sure how to write some documentation here that is clear; I
> prefer using RFC termology whenever possible, so I'd still like to
> say "group".

Don't say "group", say "blind list".  It happens to look
like a group, but this is in a draft.

> Ok, I see the problem now.  A blind-list was special-case handled in
> the alias parser.  The group name was correctly removed, but the
> trailing semicolon was included as part of the last alias, and
> consequently never matched the alias later on in the file.  This
> could be fixed by simply dropping the semicolon if we're in a blind
> list, but I have to confess that updating the documentation was
> obviously easier :-)

Here's why:

  Anyway, I was all set to allow and ignore semicolons at the
  end of aliases in lists.  But that would break the EXMH
  alias parser on what would then be valid expressions.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/nmh-workers/2012-10/msg00039.html

David