[Sigia-l] Alternatives to long string URLs for e-mail linking

[Jan Egil Hagen]

* Jan Egil Hagen <janha+sigial at ifi.uio.no>
| <http://long.url> is a microsoftism, has badly defined semantics,
| and should be avoided.

No it isn't.  RFC 1738 was updated by RFC 2396 which dropped the URL:
from the recommendation.

   Using <> angle brackets around each URI is especially recommended
   as a delimiting style for URI that contain whitespace.

   The prefix "URL:" (with or without a trailing space) was
   recommended as a way to used to help distinguish a URL from other
   bracketed designators, although this is not common in practice.

I still feel strongly that people should follow RFC 1738 and write
<URL:http://my.url> in mail.  Microsoft Outlook Express doesn't
implement RFC 1738 and does not recognize a URL unless it's
immediately prefixed by a space. <URL: http://my.url > is a compromise
of correctness and being nice to Outlook users.  I vaguely remember
being told that this was fixed some time ago on new versions of
Outlook.  Does anybody know anything more exact?

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