[Python-Dev] Re: Python-dev summary for 2002-08-15 - 2002-09-01

Steve Holden sholden@holdenweb.com
Tue, 3 Sep 2002 06:52:36 -0400


----- > I usually add <> to http thingies when I remember to.  A couple
people
> yelled at me, claiming their readers couldn't recognize http thingies
> otherwise.  This seems particularly odd, since I almost always put them on
> their own line:
>
>     http://www.python.org
>
> OTOH, *my* reader doesn't recognize them in the
>
>     <URL:http://www.python.org>
>
> style, neither with nor without <>.
>

But it nevertheless sends out something that *it* will recognise as a URL.
Both your references were correctly represented as hyperlinks in OE when I
read your message!

regards
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