[Elecraft] posting links

David Woolley forums at david-woolley.me.uk
Sat Mar 15 06:05:41 EST 2008


Lyle Johnson wrote:
> Enclose it in angle brackets with a prefix URL: and a space separating 
> the brackets from the URL, like this:
> 
> < URL:http://www.elecraft.com >
> 
> This also prevents most email clients from breaking up the line as if it 
> were text for long URLs.

The correct format for enclosing URLs in email is with no URL: and with 
no spaces within the angle brackets.  If you find you need the spaces it 
is probably to stop the sending email client from recognizing it as a 
URL (I think some strip the angle brackets in rich text and may forget 
to put them back in plain text).

However, if mail is not getting through because it contains full URLs I 
would suspect the real problem is a spam filter somewhere down the line, 
as URLs in email are a spam indicator.

-- 
David Woolley
Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want.
RFC1855 says there should be an address here, but, in a world of spam,
that is no longer good advice, as archive address hiding may not work.


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