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

Art landrey at mac.com
Tue Oct 17 08:58:50 PDT 2006


On Oct 17, 2006, at 7:11 AM, Michael Winter wrote:

> On Oct 16, 2006, at 6:02 PM, Linda wrote:
>> Or use angle brackets in a plain-text message -- which doesn't get  
>> mangled
>> as often.
>> <http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp? 
>> id=1160730321685>
> Exactly. Seems as soon as email apps got smart enough to handle the  
> "error" when people forgot to bracket URLs, people stopped adding  
> them all the time (or at all). Yes, the "new way" is better, but  
> the "old way" is still more reliable.

But several of my PC-user friends claim that the angle brackets do  
not work for them (and, in fact, cause them confusion --Yuk! Yuk!).



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