Re: how best to write email addresses in FAQs

Kent Landfield (Kent_Landfield@sterling.com)
Tue, 1 Nov 94 9:06:32 CST

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>
> > "mailto:Real Name <user@whereever>" is a legal URL (at least it works in
> > netscape) and it's relatively human-readable, but Mosaic and Tom Fine's
>
> One thing to remember is that characters like <, white space, >, & etc. need
> to be specially encoded in a URL. Thus for instance my mailto , so that
> it is a valid URL, would be:
> <URL:mailto:lvirden@cas.org%20(Larry%20W.%20Virden)>

Yuck!

I have received a few replies about mailto usage. To summarize, all basically
said that there is a standard for email addressing. Because there is, people
plan on continuing to use it. There has not been a standard notation for other
services such as telnet, ftp, ... Since there has not been an accepted
standard notation, the URL syntax has being adopted for those services.

-Kent+

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