Hej Paul B. Webster VK2BZC. Tack fšr ditt meddelande 22:19 1999-10-21 +1000 enligt nedan:
>Morgan Olsson wrote:
>
> >> Get yourself a decent mailer program that handles it!
> > I believe that will be standard in all mail readers soon.
> > Ought to be anyway...
>
>   Hang on, just *what* ought to be be a standard?  How do you recognise
>a URL without a protocol designator?  By the "www" at the front?  Is
>that a kludge built into Exploder?

No idea, abandoned it the hundredth time it crashed my system some years ago...

We humans easily can tell what is an adress by looking at the whole "word";
very few words start (or sentences end) with "www." 
In any language??

But now as we have it and it have sort of become standard for humans not to say "http://" (because it is unspeakable), the programs shuld of course adapt to the users, not the other way around.

Programs shall help the user, not demand extras...

>   Not so, *not all* Web addresses start with "www".  What else then?

That is rght, the programs should look for all possibilities: http://, ftp:// , https://, etc so why do not all programs also look for www. ?

Eudora which I use seem to get find all right.
To make it nicer the programs ought to have a little more logic, though, as a lot of programs triggers on only partial adresses, like just http:// 


BTW, on a similar topic, what sometimes annoys me are the programs that think that anything with a 2 is an e-mail adress, such as "@5V" is an URL...

The "@" is an old typographic character just meaning in english the word "at"



My personal opinion is that "www." should never been used ever in the first place, it is like having a pre-dial number for earth in the phone system... !


Well... was it me who complained about the high nonPIC traffic...?  ;)
But we do use [OT]...

Regards

/Morgan

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