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    Re: urls test —Richard Franks
   (...) Um :) Okay, I guess I can rephrase my question as, how do you avoid breaking a URL across lines? I don't recall doing anything different for the two posts mentioned, except with the 'titanic' URL, I expected it to stay together, and with the (...) (25 years ago, 14-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: urls test —Richard Franks
     (...) I might be on(to) something.. (URL) When I try the long-urls in Linux NN, they don't break.. but in my copy of Windows 98, both NN and MSIE break the urls horridly :( Richard (25 years ago, 14-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  
    
         Re: urls test —Todd Lehman
     (...) Wow, that's horrendously bad (browser bug alert!). Hmm, I never had any trouble with NN 4.x in Win95 breaking lines. What version of NN for Win98 are you running? (Looks like 4.7 from the headers.) MSIE decided to break the line at the hyphen: (...) (25 years ago, 14-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
    
         Re: urls test —Todd Lehman
     (...) Well, maybe it's not a browser bug not after all. It's totally gross, to be sure, but it's probably within the definition of WRAP=HARD or WRAP=PHYSICAL. (...) I did a bit of digging. Possibly the reason I've never seen this with NN 4.x in (...) (25 years ago, 14-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
    
         Re: urls test —Richard Franks
     (...) Okie, all the tests (NN+MSIE * PHYSICAL/OFF/NONE) are on the original thread: (URL) With the addition of one or two squiffs as well :) Richard (25 years ago, 14-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  
   
        Re: urls test —Todd Lehman
   (...) I avoid it by composing messages in a text editor which doesn't break words across 80-column boundaries. (Or in Netscape Navigator, which doesn't break them either.) --Todd (25 years ago, 14-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  
   
        Re: urls test —Matthew Miller
   (...) There was discussion on this a long time ago, but I don't remember the result. According to RFC 1738, linebreaks and other whitespace should be ok in <URL:...> format urls. Amusingly, the html version of the RFC at (URL) doesn't follow its own (...) (25 years ago, 14-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: urls test —John Matthews
   Just an observation for Matt: I am using MS Outlook Express 5 and <http:...> does not show up as a link, neither does <ftp:...>. However: <URL:...> <news:...> and mailto:... do show up as links. One day every browser and newsreader will behave well, (...) (25 years ago, 15-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: urls test —Matthew Miller
   (...) Oh really? If I recall correctly (which I may not) someone checked and an earlier version (?) of Outlook recognized <http:...> but broke with <URL:...>. What fun. (25 years ago, 15-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 

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