On 2009-11-14 10:39 , Joseph McAllister wrote:
That's your email program recognizing a link by it's http:// signature and formatting it appropriately. If you had your email software set to ONLY see text, it would leave it as plain text, I think.
not so -- there is no standard that requires it, but many (most?) common email clients will do a decent job recognizing URLs when they are sent as plain text for example this: http://example.com
many clients will fumble when those URLs cross a linebreak; if the sender uses angle brackets that should solve the problem for receiving email client that are standards-compliant
some clients will try to automatically turn a raw URL into a link if you are sending HTML ("rich text") mail, but if they do a good job, they'll also send a "plain-text alternative" of the same message (via a mode called "MIME multipart") and the receiving email client can choose which one to display; some senders fail to send a plain-text alternative, and some receiving clients set to read only the plain-text part (e.g. Thunderbird) will then attempt to convert the HTML to plain text, with mixed results
if this listserv were smart (maybe it is, i don't know), it would accept MIME multipart messages and forward only the plain text portion; this would then inconvenience only those senders whose email clients fail to send a plain-text alternative
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