[pmmail-list] URLs in Pmm Pro for windows

[Simon Bowring]

On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 09:05:41 +1300, Richard Grevers wrote:

>>> http://this.should.be.a.very.long.url.com/index.html?aaaaaaaaaaq=
>1111111111&bbbbbbbbbb=2222222222
This URL was wrapped by your client

>But is it not better to present the long url in the RFC-compliant manner?
>
><URL: http://this.should.be.a.very.long.url.com/index.html?aaaaaaaaaaq=
>1111111111&bbbbbbbbbb=2222222222>
>
>that should work in all clients.
As was this, but why on earth do you think this "should work" (i.e. not be 
wrapped)?  No where on earth does it say that something between angle 
brackets is (a) a URL or (b) shouldn't be wrapped; neither does it say 
anywhere that email clients should not wrap URLs

Note that the "solution" (a.k.a kludge) of starting the line 
containing the URL with a ">" only works because PMMail happens 
not to wrap "quoted" lines, and by using the ">" you are making 
the line look like it was quoted!

I always wrap my own lines for email/usenet btw. 

Since many people/email-clients now default to proportional fonts (i.e.
with metrics unknowable between the originator and receiver) and people
may or may not use CR LF as a "end of paragraph" (instead of "end of 
line" as intended), it's not possible to have much control of the 
apperance of emails at the other end any more. :-((

Email has just got shiterer and shiterer in the 6 or 7 years I've been
using it regularly :-((

Simon
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