On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 06:40:05 +0200,
Mikael Byström ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>Larry, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>
>>It
>>solves the problem of dealing with URLs that get broken into multiple lines.
>
>In every receiving mail client? Or which ones specifially? I suppose if
>Outlook et al regards the "<>" URL's that's great.
Using angle brackets to delimit URLs is not just a convention
honored by most mail and news clients -- it is a formal IETF
recommendation; see the appendix to RFC 1738 "Uniform Resource
Locators (URL)".
<URL:http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt>
Also, historically, mail and news clients for the Macintosh
platform have used the Internet Config API to locate and resolve
URLs in free text, and Internet Config has always treated angle
brackets as URL delimiters -- that explains why applications
from different vendors behave similarly in this regard.
-- marco
--
It's not the data universe only, it's human conversation.
They want to turn it into a one-way flow that they have entirely
monetized. I look at the collective human mind as a kind of
ecosystem. They want to clear cut it. They want to go into the
rainforest of human thought and mow the thing down.
