Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 21:17:12 -0500 From: Scott W Brim To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: FAO: cfg: defaults Message-ID: <20030105021712.GA764@SBRIM-W2K1> Mail-Followup-To: Scott W Brim , cygwin@cygwin.com References: <5.2.0.9.2.20030104162127.0204c038@pop3.cris.com> <20030105013324.GD11814@redhat.com> <1041730705.18547.250.camel@lifelesswks> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1041730705.18547.250.camel@lifelesswks> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/