On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:13:12 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: >In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 12/20/2007 > at 12:06 PM, Howard Brazee said: > >>I recommend putting both the full URL and the short one. > >Works for me. > >-- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT > ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
But, PKB (sort of) The "resume" URL, as it appears on, e.g.: http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0712&L=ibm-main&P=R87955 ... gives "404 Not Found" from Lynx, Firefox, probably many others because of the trailing '>'. An excerpt from the HTML source is: ...see <<a href="http://patriot.net/~+shmuel/resume/brief.html&gt;">http... There's a similar problem in URLs appearing in messages from Ed F. and dasdbill; perhaps from others using AOL.COM, because of a trailing ')' or '_'. And Ed G. suggested in frustration that you, not he, submit a PMR on Apple's Mail program. Well, one thing I _do_ like about IBM is that I can submit PMRs (when IBMLink is working); they're answered; sometimes they're even fixed. I have lots of problems with Apple's Mail; almost as many with Thunderbird. They try to be impossibly smart -- "Content-type: text/plain;format=flowed" is oxymoronic: "format=flowed" means it contains markup, and if it contains markup, it's not plain. If I post messages on IBM-MAIN's web interface, I never have URL wrapping problems. I've got "mutt" built and stumbling on my MacBook and Solaris; I need to <gasp> get sendmail/postfix configured on the MacBook, then I can use mutt and not worry about URL wrapping. I guess I'm an Email Luddite. RFC 1738 contains a recommendation (not a standard) for "APPENDIX: Recommendations for URLs in Context" ... the URL should be surrounded by "<URL:" and ">", and the processor should ignore linear and vertical whitespace. Example: <URL: http:// www . ietf . org/ rfc/ rfc1738.txt > ... ought to work. This convention is not widely respected, but wouldn't it be nice if LISTSERV implemented it? >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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO >Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html