In <listserv%201010200940482503.0...@bama.ua.edu>, on 10/20/2010 at 09:40 AM, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> said:
>But some mailers have a compulsion to break lines at less than 80 >characters, >From RFC 5322 2.1.1. Line Length Limits There are two limits that this specification places on the number of characters in a line. Each line of characters MUST be no more than 998 characters, and SHOULD be no more than 78 characters, excluding the CRLF. >often adding a "format=flowed" to the header. Given that RFC 3676 is dated February 2004 and RFC 2646 is even older, that's hardly bleeding edge. >LISTSERV seems not to understand this and doesn't properly >reconstruct URLs. LISTSERV is a list server; why would it do anything special with a URL? >And one mailer in particular, used by a few contributors to this >list wraps URLs in '<' and '>' >From RFC 3986 Appendix C. Delimiting a URI in Context In practice, URIs are delimited in a variety of ways, but usually within double-quotes "http://example.com/";, angle brackets <http://example.com/>, or just by using whitespace: -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
