Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/01/04/20:57:49
Chris,
I think it's in one of the email RFCs. I remember tracking it down once
during an (ill-considered) "debate" on one of the Bay Area Usenet groups.
I should have made note of where I found it, but I didn't. I can find a
variety of non-official mentions of this as a recommended convention using
Google, but the relevant RFCs are numerous and voluminous.
I'll try to find something definitive and authoritative and let you know.
(It's one of those pet peeve / crusade things for me to get people to use
these things, so the authority of the IETF is something good to have at hand.)
Randall Schulz
At 17:33 2003-01-04, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>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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