On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:13:12 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
>In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 12/20/2007
> at 12:06 PM, Howard Brazee said:
>
>>I recommend putting both the full URL and the short one.
>
>Works for me.
>
>--
> Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
> ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
But, PKB (sort of) The "resume" URL, as it appears on, e.g.:
http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0712&L=ibm-main&P=R87955
... gives "404 Not Found" from Lynx, Firefox, probably many
others because of the trailing '>'. An excerpt from the
HTML source is:
...see <<a
href="http://patriot.net/~+shmuel/resume/brief.html&gt;";>http...
There's a similar problem in URLs appearing in messages from
Ed F. and dasdbill; perhaps from others using AOL.COM, because
of a trailing ')' or '_'.
And Ed G. suggested in frustration that you, not he, submit a
PMR on Apple's Mail program. Well, one thing I _do_ like about
IBM is that I can submit PMRs (when IBMLink is working); they're
answered; sometimes they're even fixed. I have lots of problems
with Apple's Mail; almost as many with Thunderbird. They try
to be impossibly smart -- "Content-type: text/plain;format=flowed"
is oxymoronic: "format=flowed" means it contains markup, and
if it contains markup, it's not plain.
If I post messages on IBM-MAIN's web interface, I never have
URL wrapping problems.
I've got "mutt" built and stumbling on my MacBook and Solaris;
I need to <gasp> get sendmail/postfix configured on the MacBook,
then I can use mutt and not worry about URL wrapping. I guess
I'm an Email Luddite.
RFC 1738 contains a recommendation (not a standard) for
"APPENDIX: Recommendations for URLs in Context"
... the URL should be surrounded by "<URL:" and ">", and the
processor should ignore linear and vertical whitespace.
Example:
<URL: http:// www . ietf . org/
rfc/
rfc1738.txt >
... ought to work. This convention is not widely respected,
but wouldn't it be nice if LISTSERV implemented it?
>We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
>(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
>
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