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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Wayne Gramlich wrote:
> 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 reassembled by compressing out any whitespace.
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>
> There is essentially no chance that mail/news readers will ever switch
> over to FTX conventions. The most prudent coarse of action would be
> to modify to FTX to peacefully coexist with standard mail/news readers.
But it was designed to peacefully coexist that already.
> Since I do not know who designed FTX,
It came out of talks in lugnet.admin.general and lugnet.faq in 1999.
> I have no idea how feasible it is to modifiy the FTX specification to
> correct this problem.
Changing it wouldn't really be feasible, unless there were some real issues
with mail/news clients interpreting the links incorrectly.
--Todd
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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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