[X4U] APPLE's Mail Program

[Michael Elliott]

Um...post your URLs and let those that would benefit from your post  
figure out the link (perhaps including a tinyurl link on another line  
if they want to click on that instead) while letting the others waste  
their time with their semantics.  Of course, you'll then set off  
multiple threads from your one post: at least one about how they NEVER  
trust tinyurl links, and the other about how your original URL wrapped  
when it shouldn't have.

Life's too short.


On Jan 1, 2008, at 12:13 AM, Ed Gould wrote:

> I subscribe to a *extremely* technical computer email list. Once in  
> a great while I post a URL that wraps the line.
> I get flamed for this as they are the types that can site RFC's and  
> exact lines of RFC's where "I" (read APPLEs EMAIL program) breaks  
> the RFC for not handling wrapped URL's and or other breaking of  
> various RFC "rules". I know I am a whipping boy on some of these  
> comments but I am to the point of saying if you don't like it then  
> complain to Apple. I just don't have the time or the where-with-all  
> to go into such an argument. These people *KNOW* what they are  
> talking about and you really have to be a anal retentive lawyer to  
> argue with them on stuff like this, IMO.
>
> They can argue for 4 months (10-15 emails a day) on real minutiae  
> (the meaning of a computer term).
>
> One suggested I put "<" and ">" before and after the URL. I did that  
> and according to them it still violated the RFC. In other words they  
> are a hypercritical bunch and are of the type that do know it all  
> (sigh). I am *NOT* conversant in the RFC's to try and even argue one  
> way or the other. How would any of you handle this type of situation?
>
> Ed
>
> ps: I am not about to read and try to understand the RFC's for EMAIL  
> (let alone become an expert).