[X4U] Commentary: Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree

[Steve Martin]

An excellent retort here...

http://wilshipley.com/blog/2006/10/flame-my-birthday-present-to-me.html

On Oct 16, 2006, at 11:21 AM, Doug McNutt wrote:

> At 08:41 -0400 10/16/06, Mark Des Cotes wrote:
>> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2)
>> <x-flowed>can't access the article. I get an "Invalid asset ID"  
>> message.
>
> And then quoted -and I trimmed
>> On 16-Oct-06, at 7:54 AM, J Flenner wrote:
>>
>>> Any responses for this fellow?
>>> http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?
>>> id=1160730321685
>>> _______________________________________________
>> </x-flowed>
>
> At 08:39 -0700 10/16/06, Ed Graf wrote:
>> The URL he gave:
>>
>>> <http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?>http:// 
>>> www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?
>>> id=1160730321685
>>
>> when copied and pasted into any browser, should give:
>>> <http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?% 
>>> 20>http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?% 
>>> 20id=1160730321685
>>
>> erase the "%20" characters, right after the ? and just before the  
>> i in id.
>
> Note that the whole problem is created by Apple's mail.app which  
> introduces more spaces than are required as it wraps lines to less  
> than 80 characters while creating format-flowed messages.
>
> Apple says it's following the rules but it's relying on a newer  
> version of the format-flowed RFC when it expects all mail clients  
> to remove the extra spaces at the line ends when told to do so by a  
> new parameter which can easily be dropped by a mailing list in  
> digest mode.
>
> Argue about who's right but no matter what you conclude, it's a  
> problem that occurs with Apple's mail.app which could cooperate  
> with older mail clients if it wanted to. Mail.app can even mess up  
> long URL's that are enclosed in <> characters.
>
> Perhaps the lawyer who started this could have been more technical  
> about his complaints but then Internet Explorer to which he tunes  
> his own web pages is far worse than mail.app at ignoring RFC's.
>
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