On Jan 4, 2008, at 9:41 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
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)
Shmuel:
I was talking about this issue on another list and they suggested
that the probable culprit was the listserv. They seemed to be able to
site the RFC's as well as you and the other people on the list here.
They also suggested that some of the people on here ought to re-read
the RFC's as the text=flowed (as one person put it) does not mean
what the person says it does. I do not know myself, I am going to
continue putting the <> around the URL's and if people can't handle
that tough luck as far as I am concerned. I can't be blamed for some
one else's not implementing the RFC's incorrectly.
Ed
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