Re: how best to write email addresses in FAQs

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> I have seen the stds which say to write URLs as
> <URL:proto:site[:port]/[path]> but what about email addresses? Should
> they be written as <mailto:user@site>?

(By the std you quote, it would be <URL:mailto:user@site>.)

In my FAQ I describe resources using URLs whenever possible, in order to make
best use of the automatic conversion of most URLs to hypertext links at the OSU
WWW FAQ server.

I don't use the URL: pre-appendage because very few people do, and the OSU
converter doesn't require it. (Demonstrating its redundance, IMO)

I don't use the angle brackets because the conversion program at OSU seems to
include the right angle bracket as part of the URL, thus making a bad link.
They aren't part of the URL definition anyway, only a recommendation.

I do express e-mail addresses as mailto:mcurrent@carleton.edu, even though the
OSU site doesn't support conversion of mailto: URLs, with the hope that it will
in the future.

Michael Current, Keeper of the 8-Bit Atari FAQ & Vendor/Developer Lists
Cleveland Free-Net Atari SIGOp: aa700 / mailto:mcurrent@carleton.edu

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