For context, this is the Lars Ingebrigtsen who wrote the manual for Gnus[0], a common Emacs package for reading email and Usenet. It’s clever, funny, and wildly informative. Lars has probably forgotten more about email parsing than 99% of us here will ever have learned.

The manual itself says[1]:

> Often when I read the manual, I think that we should take a collection up to have Lars psycho-analysed.

0: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/gnus.htm...

1: https://www.gnus.org/manual.html