Re: Sending a clickable link in a Plain Text e-Mail

2016-07-18 Thread Daniel
On 17/07/2016 8:48 AM, EE wrote: Daniel wrote: I've thought I can send a link in a PT e-mail and it would be clickable! Tonight I found it isn't, so I thought it would work if I enclosed it in arrowheads , i.e. but that didn't work either! How can I send/format a web address in a PT e-mail in

Re: Sending a clickable link in a Plain Text e-Mail

2016-07-16 Thread »Q«
In , "David E. Ross" wrote: > On 7/16/2016 5:54 PM, »Q« wrote: > > In , > > "David E. Ross" wrote: > > > >> On 7/16/2016 12:35 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote [in part]: > >> > >>[snipped] >

Re: Sending a clickable link in a Plain Text e-Mail

2016-07-16 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
David E. Ross wrote: I prefer using RFC 3986, which updated RFC 1738. In any case, RFC 1738 is marked as obsolete. The overall context of Appendix C of RFC 3986 seems to indicate a human use for the brackets. This is seen in the reference to "on printed paper." in the first paragraph of the a

Re: Sending a clickable link in a Plain Text e-Mail

2016-07-16 Thread David E. Ross
On 7/16/2016 5:54 PM, »Q« wrote: > In , > "David E. Ross" wrote: > >> On 7/16/2016 12:35 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote [in part]: >> >> [snipped] >> >>> The chief purpose of the angle brackets is delineation -- to tell >>> the receiving applic

Re: Sending a clickable link in a Plain Text e-Mail

2016-07-16 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
David E. Ross wrote: On 7/16/2016 12:35 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote [in part]: [snipped] The chief purpose of the angle brackets is delineation -- to tell the receiving application "the URL begins here... and ends here." AFAIK they don't tell it "this is a URL." For that, you need eit

Re: Sending a clickable link in a Plain Text e-Mail

2016-07-16 Thread »Q«
In , "David E. Ross" wrote: > On 7/16/2016 12:35 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote [in part]: > > [snipped] > > > The chief purpose of the angle brackets is delineation -- to tell > > the receiving application "the URL begins here... and ends h

Re: Sending a clickable link in a Plain Text e-Mail

2016-07-16 Thread David E. Ross
On 7/16/2016 12:35 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote [in part]: [snipped] > The chief purpose of the angle brackets is delineation -- to tell the > receiving application "the URL begins here... and ends here." AFAIK they > don't tell it "this is a URL." For that, you need either an HTML messa

Re: Sending a clickable link in a Plain Text e-Mail

2016-07-16 Thread EE
Daniel wrote: I've thought I can send a link in a PT e-mail and it would be clickable! Tonight I found it isn't, so I thought it would work if I enclosed it in arrowheads , i.e. but that didn't work either! How can I send/format a web address in a PT e-mail in such a fashion that it is directly

Re: Sending a clickable link in a Plain Text e-Mail

2016-07-16 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
I just wrote: Similarly, many diagnose mail links whenever they see the character "@" -- this@that will probably be clickable when SM receives this message. OK, guess not. Probably requires at least one period. How about ? Or does it have to be a valid TLD like ? -- War doesn't determine wh

Re: Sending a clickable link in a Plain Text e-Mail

2016-07-16 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
»Q« wrote: In , Daniel wrote: I've thought I can send a link in a PT e-mail and it would be clickable! Tonight I found it isn't, so I thought it would work if I enclosed it in arrowheads , i.e. but that didn't work either! How can I send/fo

Re: Sending a clickable link in a Plain Text e-Mail

2016-07-16 Thread »Q«
In , Daniel wrote: > I've thought I can send a link in a PT e-mail and it would be > clickable! Tonight I found it isn't, so I thought it would work if I > enclosed it in arrowheads , i.e. but that didn't work > either! > > How can I send/forma

Re: Sending a clickable link in a Plain Text e-Mail

2016-07-16 Thread WaltS48
Daniel wrote: I've thought I can send a link in a PT e-mail and it would be clickable! Tonight I found it isn't, so I thought it would work if I enclosed it in arrowheads , i.e. but that didn't work either! How can I send/format a web address in a PT e-mail in such a fashion that it is directly

Re: Sending a clickable link in a Plain Text e-Mail

2016-07-16 Thread David E. Ross
On 7/16/2016 6:09 AM, Daniel wrote: > I've thought I can send a link in a PT e-mail and it would be clickable! > Tonight I found it isn't, so I thought it would work if I enclosed it in > arrowheads , i.e. but that didn't work either! > > How can I send/format a web address in a PT e-mail in su

Re: Sending a clickable link in a Plain Text e-Mail

2016-07-16 Thread Ed Mullen
On 7/16/2016 at 9:09 AM, Daniel's prodigious digits fired off: I've thought I can send a link in a PT e-mail and it would be clickable! Tonight I found it isn't, so I thought it would work if I enclosed it in arrowheads , i.e. but that didn't work either! How can I send/format a web address in

Sending a clickable link in a Plain Text e-Mail

2016-07-16 Thread Daniel
I've thought I can send a link in a PT e-mail and it would be clickable! Tonight I found it isn't, so I thought it would work if I enclosed it in arrowheads , i.e. but that didn't work either! How can I send/format a web address in a PT e-mail in such a fashion that it is directly clickable a