Sign your name in pkg-descr is useless or useful?

[Sergey Matveychuk]

> The reason I suggested the first syntax is so just the email
> address could be simply parsed.

IMHO Email address could be simply parsed any way.
Regexp not so difficult for it:
[A-Za-z0-9_-]+@[A-Za-z0-9-]+(\.[A-Za-z0-9-]+)*\.[A-Za-z]+
it could be more complex of course for more strict errors chechking.

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