On 7/16/2016 12:35 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote [in part]:
[snipped]
> The chief purpose of the angle brackets is delineation -- to tell the
> receiving application "the URL begins here... and ends here." AFAIK they
> don't tell it "this is a URL." For that, you need either an HTML message
> (which supports hyperlinks), or a receiving application like SeaMonkey
> that recognizes URLs and email addresses and makes them clickable. And
> yes, including "http://"; does help some apps in their recognition
> process. Similarly, many diagnose mail links whenever they see the
> character "@" -- this@that will probably be clickable when SM receives
> this message.
Actually, the use of the < and > as brackets is for humans. This is so
a human user can tell how much to copy and then paste into a browser's
address area.
The presence of http:// or https:// (or some other indication of an
Iternet protocol such as FTP://) is more important to applications than
the brackets.
> Anyway, the point of plain text is that by definition it doesn't have
> hyperlinks. So if you want to guarantee clickability, use HTML.
That is not necessarily true. About 20 years ago, Eudora Lite
recognized URIs in plain-text messages. On the other hand, AOL's
proprietary E-mail application did not; I do not know if AOL ever fixed
that since I never use AOL.
--
David E. Ross
<http://www.rossde.com/>.
Is it true that Donald Trump refuses to reveal his
income tax returns because he uses so many questionable
loopholes that he pays no taxes? See
<http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/06/15/new-evidence-donald-trump-didn-t-pay-taxes.html>.
Even if those
loopholes are legal, Trump might be too embarrassed to
admit he pays no taxes.
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