[Coco] [Color Computer] william barden

[William Astle]

On 2011-07-08 13:02, gene heskett wrote:

> That convention is, at least in linux kmail, 100% divorced from any html 
> treatments.

Probably in others too. It was just a dig at how plain text doesn't
really support linking while HTML does. :)

> This is not an html formatted message, but this link should Just Work(TM) 
> in any email agent worthy of the name including your t-bird-3.1.10.
> 
> <http://gene.homelinux.net:85/gene/>
> 
> And it could just as easily be <http://gene.homelinux.net:85/gene/> in the 
> middle of a line as above and should Just Work also.

Yup. It Just Works. And it has done for quite a few releases of t-bird
before this one. I think it even works in certain Microsoft programs.

But of course, now we're getting way "off topic", what with a calm,
polite conversation about something and no participant bashing and so
on. But then, we are also off topic in the real sense, too. :)