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Jerry Feldman wrote: | The issue is not the URL, but with the way I presented it preceeded by | server:. For instance, server:http://asgard.blu.org | This works fine with exmh. | "Patrick O'Rourke" wrote: | | > I have no problem with it using the mail client w/ mozilla 0.9.4 | > (RH 7.1). This is true. I've seen a lot of curious results when various programs attempt to recognize URLs in plain text. They sometimes give "interesting" results with marginal URLs. One of my test cases is that I have a collection of jokes at: http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/;-)/ It can be fun to send such URLs to people via plain-text email and see if they can use it. Most GUI mail readers will mangle it one way or another. Some will work despite the mangling. Plain-text mail readers just show it, and you can cut and paste it into your browser's window. Mozilla seems to handle this without any problems (though when I put it in the URL widget, the semicolon changes to %3b). I've used it as a test for various web-enabled programs, and some of them fail badly, even when I put the URL in quotes. Unix itself isn't bothered by such file names, of course, though most of the shells obviously need quotes to handle it correctly. (I suppose this URL would qualify as "geek humor". ;-) - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
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