removed the section about why the author-email field *was* mandatory

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Tarek Ziadé 2010-02-09 22:42:53 +00:00
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@ -194,14 +194,7 @@ Author-email (optional)
A string containing the author's e-mail address. It can contain
a name and e-mail address in the legal forms for a RFC-822
``From:`` header. It's not optional because cataloging systems
can use the e-mail portion of this field as a unique key
representing the author. A catalog might provide authors the
ability to store their GPG key, personal home page, and other
additional metadata *about the author*, and optionally the
ability to associate several e-mail addresses with the same
person. Author-related metadata fields are not covered by this
PEP.
``From:`` header.
Example::