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[Daly Jessup]

At 0 13  -0600 1/1/08, 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.
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>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?

They don't sound like a fun bunch! But it's strange that they would 
say to use brackets and then object. It makes me wonder if you did 
something I have seen from time to time:  might you have put the URL 
in brackets but omitted the "http"?  I've seen people trying to do 
the right thing, posting a URL like this:

<www.google.com>

Of course, that doesn't work, even though they used brackets. THIS would work:

<http://www.google.com>

Might that have been what happened?

Daly
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