In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 12/31/2007 at 04:06 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>... 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... That looks like a bug in the software that builds and presents the archives. It's certainly not the URL in my messages. >And Ed G. suggested in frustration that you, not he, submit a PMR on >Apple's Mail program. I assure you that apple would be even less receptive to that than me. If they'll listen to anyone, it's their customers. >They try to be impossibly smart Perhaps. >"Content-type: text/plain;format=flowed" is oxymoronic: A header field in SMTP is not an English sentence, it's a data structure with its own syntax and semantics. RFC 2646, and RFC 3676, which is on the standards track, specify both the media type "text/plain" and the format "flowed". If you don't like the syntax, blame the IETF, not apple. >RFC 1738 contains a recommendation Updated by RFC 3986 > "APPENDIX: Recommendations for URLs in Context" Now "Appendix C. Delimiting a URI in Context" >This convention is not widely respected, A lot of mail and news software recognizes a URL in <>, and a lot of e-mail tells you to click on things. >but wouldn't it be nice if LISTSERV implemented it? LISTSERV observes it; it's the web interface that's broken. I don't know whether the problem exists in DIGEST. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
