>Besides (or maybe I haven't paid sufficient attention), with the >delimiters < and > I can Command-click on the URL and [EMAIL PROTECTED] >automagically opens my default browser, loads the URL, and triggers the >connecton. Not too shabby for an email app that pre-dates the main WWW >surge!
Emailer will actually do that regardless of the < and > Emailer looks for some kind of a delimiter (angle brackets prefered) to know the start and end of a URL. If it doesn't find delimiters, it will make a best guess at it. But even if it can't guess, all you have to do is hilight the URL, and then command click the hilighted area, and Emailer will assume you know what you are doing and use the hilited section as a URL. The problem comes into play when a URL breaks across lines. If there is no delimiter, Emailer will have problems. It can be difficult to hilight across multiple lines, plus, often when you do that, it will pick up the line break characters as well, and then the browser won't know how to deal with the URL. If the URL is delimited, Emailer will automatically span as many lines as needed, and strip the line break characters (if there are any) out of the URL when it passes it to the browser. All this works the same in most other email clients these days as well. The delimiter can actually be a number of different characters, but < and > are the "accepted form" for URLs and that is why those should be used instead of some other characters. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
