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Re: FAO: cfg: defaults


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.

Rob
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