Piero said:
> Quoting from Kent Landfield (Sun Oct 30 07:54:41 1994):
> > mailto:user@site. As I do not really like the mailto: usage I have not
> > modified my FAQS to use it, even though I use other URL references
> > syntax. What do people think ?
>
> I strongly agree. I don't like the mailto:.... stuff either, while I do
> like all other URLs. I think an e-mail address in the FAQs should be
> written `<valid e-mail addr.>', so that people (especially newbies) can
> cut&paste it and it will work.
Even better, "Real Name <user@whereever>" is cut-and-pasteable, and it
emphasizes the person's real name rather than their email address.
"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
FAQ-to-WWW system don't support mailto: URLs at all. I don't think the tiny
gain in convenience for users of browsers which do support mailto: would
offset the slight drop in readability.
Cheers,
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