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| (...) Unfortunately, the design of FTX is somewhat flawed when it comes to standard news and mail readers. Enclosing a URL in angle brackets <...> is a hint to most news/mail readers that a long URL that spans more than one line should be (...) (21 years ago, 15-Jun-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| (...) Have you seen a news/mail reader that actually implements that behavior? I don't believe that behavior is even defined in any RFC, is it??? I've heard about line-joining before, but only with the notation <URL:url> (...) But it was designed to (...) (21 years ago, 16-Jun-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| Todd: (...) Yes. Mozilla does. I'm 99% sure that Eudora does as well. I'm quite sure that there are many others. Since I do not run Microsoft products, I have no idea what they do. (...) The relevant RFC is RFC1738 in the appendix. Alas, most people (...) (21 years ago, 17-Jun-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| (...) What an strange and unfortunate outcome. (...) Thanks for the links. (...) I think you're right. Eudora isn't known for strict adherence to SMTP/NNTP standards, but Mozilla is a totally different story. If this is confusing a modern-day (...) (21 years ago, 17-Jun-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| (...) Actually, back in 1994, which is when RFC1738 was written, there was all sorts of discussion about URN's (Universal Resource Names), URI's (Univesal Resource Identifiers), and URL's (Universal Resource Locators). The concept is that a URN (...) (21 years ago, 17-Jun-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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