On JFri, 8 Jun 2007 21:03:34, Ward Oldham <woldham at insightbb.com> wrote:
> George, > > Should you need to download the drivers, copy the full link. I > noticed that both links have been broken. You may find it corrected > below. > > Ward MacWorld writer Rob Griffiths says: "The plain text method If, like me, you try to stay away from rich text e-mails, the simple thing to do is to surround your URL with angle brackets, like this: <http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000BI5KV0/ref=amb_link_4263902_/ 002-5510588-1062447> URLs enclosed in angle brackets should still be clickable?even if the e-mail client inserts a line break for formatting purposes. How come? Because back in 1998, the Network Working Group of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) wrote this document <http:// www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt>, which describes a generic syntax for Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs, of which URLs are a specific form). In the document, the working group describes how URIs enclosed in angle brackets should be parsed when the use of white space (such as line breaks) is required for formatting purposes. Any e-mail client that follows these guidelines should display a clickable link, even if the line is wrapped. Unfortunately, you may still find some e-mail programs that break URLs within angle brackets. If that?s the case, and you?re hard set against sending rich text e-mails, you?ll probably need the next option." The rest of the article is here: <http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/macosxhints/2007/01/sendlongurl/ index.php> -- Jonathan Fletcher jfletch at newmediaconstco.com Project Foreman NewMedia Construction Co.
