As you can see, it didn't work. In fact, from what I've seen, some email
clients suppress the generation of a clickable link altogether when the URL
is enclosed in angle brackets.
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Kent K. Steinbrenner
> Sent: June 20, 2001 10:30
> To: U.S. Metric Association
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [USMA:13943] RE: Central Hudson case
>
>
> In USMA 13940, Bill Potts wrote:
>
> >> Maybe, one day, all email software will reproduce long URLs without
> fragmentation. <<
>
> I read somewhere a while back that the way to make long URLs keep their
> hyperlinkability (is that a word? <g>) in a plain-text e-mail is to place
> angle brackets around the URL; this way, most e-mail clients will
> know that
> anything in-between the angle brackets is a URL and will show it as a
> hyperlink, even if for display purposes it needs to be split
> between lines.
>
> Let's see if it works with this URL:
>
> <
> http://www2.law.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/foliocgi.exe/historic/query=%5
Bgroup+f_c
ommercial+speech!3A%5D/doc/%7Bt78550%7D/hit_headings/words=4/pageitems=%7Bbo
dy%7D>
--Kent
