The format is slightly off. Rfc1738 defines how URLs should look like in
electronic text. It is a mistake to add <> around mailto urls. There sould
be <URL:> or nothing around the mailto;
3.5. MAILTO
The mailto URL scheme is used to designate the Internet mailing
address of an individual or service. No additional information other
than an Internet mailing address is present or implied.
A mailto URL takes the form:
mailto:<rfc822-addr-spec>
It is also adviced that to refer to url xxxx; it is wrapped inside
<URL:xxxx>. See this from same rfc:
APPENDIX: Recommendations for URLs in Context
URIs, including URLs, are intended to be transmitted through
protocols which provide a context for their interpretation.
In some cases, it will be necessary to distinguish URLs from other
possible data structures in a syntactic structure. In this case, is
recommended that URLs be preceeded with a prefix consisting of the
characters "URL:". For example, this prefix may be used to
distinguish URLs from other kinds of URIs.
In addition, there are many occasions when URLs are included in other
kinds of text; examples include electronic mail, USENET news
messages, or printed on paper. In such cases, it is convenient to
have a separate syntactic wrapper that delimits the URL and separates
it from the rest of the text, and in particular from punctuation
marks that might be mistaken for part of the URL. For this purpose,
is recommended that angle brackets ("<" and ">"), along with the
prefix "URL:", be used to delimit the boundaries of the URL. This
wrapper does not form part of the URL and should not be used in
contexts in which delimiters are already specified.
jari
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