>>>>> "Philip" == Philip Hazel <ph10@???> writes:
Philip> On Mon, 22 Apr 1996, James R Grinter wrote:
>> On Mon 22 Apr, 1996, Philip Hazel <ph10@???> wrote:
>> >On Fri, 19 Apr 1996 Neal.Becker@??? wrote:
>> >> exim a, b, c
>> >>
>> >> This doesn't work, of course. But
>> >>
>> >> Is this common usage? Should exim strip a trailing comma?
>> >
>> >Seems like a nasty fudge to me. Such fudges always seem to cause trouble
>> >later.
>>
>> this is actually the problem I mentioned to you privately.
Philip> No, it's not! He has spaces *as well as* commas; i.e. each address is
Philip> given as a separate argument, but with a trailing comma.
Don't take my example too literally, I don't know for sure precisely
what mreply was feeding to exim. I don't want to force exim to accept
every silly thing that any mailer might produce, but if this is common
usage (I don't know if it is or not) perhaps we should accept it.
