Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/21

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Subject: [Leica] toe in the water
From: henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)
Date: Tue Nov 21 17:08:49 2006
References: <20061121030148.47137.qmail@web25503.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <FE0D4D90-9924-46E6-84F6-5B7F470C0A37@gilplant.com> <8D40F9945615469D5068F8B2@hindolveston.reid.org>
 
>>I don't get it? I'm reading Alastair's posts in Mail.app on a 
>>powerbook under OS X 10.4.8 and none of the URLs have been broken,
>
>Yes they have. But Mail.app is able to read what it wreaks. When 
>both sender and recipient are using the same program, it will 
>un-break the URLs inside the recipient's program the same way it 
>broke them inside the sender's copy of that bad program.
>
>But almost no other email program will join the two broken halves 
>back together, because the internet mail standards documents say 
>that you're not supposed to do that unless there are <...> around it.
>

Eudora on the Mac displays things correctly as well.

But I still like shorter or tinyurl's better.

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