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7.3 Author Names  Supercite employs a number of heuristics to
decipher the author's name based on value of the ‘From:’ mail
field of the original message. Supercite can recognize almost
all of the common ‘From:’ field formats in use. If you encounter
a ‘From:’ field that Supercite cannot parse, please report this
bug using M-x report-emacs-bug.  There are a number of Supercite
variables that control how author names are extracted from the
‘From:’ header. Some headers may contain a descriptive title as
in:    Some ‘From:’ headers may contain extra titles in the name
fields not separated by a title cue, but which are nonetheless
not part of the author's name proper. Examples include the
titles “Dr.”, “Mr.”, “Ms.”, “Jr.”, “Sr.”, and “III” (e.g.,
Thurston Howe, the Third). Also, some companies prepend or
append the name of the division, organization, or project on the
author's name. All of these titles are noise which should be
ignored. The variable