Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/11/20

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Subject: [Leica] Links on the LUG:Brian
From: abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge)
Date: Tue Nov 20 08:21:10 2007
References: <20071120001516.46814D26@resin11.mta.everyone.net> <CB2CC3576F123406D789219C@hindolveston.reid.org>
 
Unfortunately in this example the link you created IS broken, at least  
in Mail.app on my 10.5.1 Mac. I think it's the space that does it.

Adam
On Nov 20, 2007, at 5:43 AM, Brian Reid wrote:

> If the <> around a URL make it so you cannot click on it without cut/ 
> paste, then you have a defective email reading program.
>
> The purpose of the <> characters is to signal to a mail-reading  
> program that the thing between them is a URL and that it is OK for  
> there to be a line break there. So
>
> <http://what
>   ever>
>
> should work fine. If there is no danger of a line being broken, then  
> there is no need to put the <> characters there. If their presence  
> make it so that you cannot click on it, then you should file a bug  
> report with the authors of your email program.
Replies: Reply from ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter) ([Leica] Links on the LUG:Brian)
 In reply to: Message from afirkin at afirkin.com (afirkin@afirkin.com) ([Leica] Links on the LUG:Brian)
Message from reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid) ([Leica] Links on the LUG:Brian)