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Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 20:33:24 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: FAO: cfg: defaults
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On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 04:24:53PM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
>At 08:50 2003-01-04, John Morrison wrote:
>>Please find for you perusal and review...  (long links, will wrap!)
>
>Why don't you enclose all URLs in email within angle brackets instead
>of forcing people to reintegrate the wrapped links?  Even a short URL
>can fall on a line wrap boundary if embedded in other text.

I've noticed that people do this and I'm always curious as to why.  Is
there a mail reader convention that causes angle bracket wrapped URLs to
be properly understood?  I know that my mail reader doesn't understand
them but...

cgf

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