Re: What is this thing?

[David Nebenzahl <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/30/2010 2:52 PM aemeijers spake thus:

> Doug wrote:
 >
>> "Stormin Mormon" <cayoung61**spamblock##@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:hk1hva$ri5$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
 >>
>>> Please do not put a carat at the front of a URL, makes the
>>> URL unclickable.
>>
>> What is it about God botherers that cause them to be so anal.
>> Its not even a caret, let alone a carat.
>
> With some mail programs/readers, it DOES make them survive line-wrap,
> however. That is how the custom got started.

The days when one had to "protect" a URL from being munged or mangled by
a brain-damaged news or mail client are, for the most part, over. (Well,
except for those like Stormin who choose to use OE.) That
enclosing-the-URL-in-angle-brackets thing is pretty silly anymore.


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