Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/01/04/21:17:35
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 12:38:25PM +1100, Robert Collins allegedly wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 12:33, 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...
>
> Yes, there is. Uhmm, I *think* it was Eudora years and years ago that
> did it first.
Pete Resnick (editor of RFC2822, and employee of Qualcomm) was one of
the leaders of the movement to make <> a standard. IIRC it never became
required, but if you want to set off URLs, it's a nice way to do it.
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