Below is some information about formatting URLs in news articles.
I'm forwarding this with the permission of M. L. Grant.
-Nancy
--- >From: grant@coho.halcyon.com (M. L. Grant) >Newsgroups: halcyon.general >Subject: Re: Check the URLs in your signatures >Date: 22 Nov 1994 19:43:22 GMT >Organization: Mount Cuba Observatory > >>I've noticed quite a few news postings that have URLs in the >>signatures. This is well and good, but make sure that there >>is whitespace before and after the URL so that "smart" >>newsreaders (i.e. Netscape) can make it into a navigable >>hotlink. > >For everybody's information, regarding URL's: > >The latest Internet Draft Standard calls for the following >notation, which can and can't be read by various Web browsers >as they read news: > ><URL:http://www.halcyon.com/grant/index.html> > >The best way to handle Web browsers' not reading the correct >notation is to mail the browser writers, not to keep your >signature incorrect. (We just finished this discussion about >presenting URL's in news.groups, where the CFV for >comp.infosystems.www.announce should be posted by Sunday. Vote >yes! Vote yes! -ahem-) > >The URL for the particular Internet Draft where this is >stated is: > ><URL:http://www.es.net/pub/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-uri-url-08.txt> > >In a nutshell, what we have to remember is that the Web is >an information system, and Web browsers are, as yet, lousy >news readers. But it's not their job to read news. The >browsers should conform to the standard; the standard shouldn't >be broken because of browsers' incapabilities, and neither >should my .signature. >-- > >M. L. Grant | >grant@chinook.halcyon.com | For text-only browsing, ><URL:http://www.halcyon.com/grant/> | click _here_.
-- /\_/\ ( o.o ) Nancy McGough <URL:http://www.jazzie.com/ii/> > ^ < Infinite Ink <URL:ftp://ftp.halcyon.com/pub/ii>
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