Re: Links in email

Subject: Re: Links in email
From: Peter Kent <techwr -at- ARUNDEL -dot- COM>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 1997 09:43:23 -0600

> One other thing: if the address or URL has spaces in it, replace them
> with "%20".
> For example:

> mailto://joe schmo -at- fakedomain -dot- com

> is interpreted by most mail programs as an email address of "joe"
> followed by some text that happens to be "schmo -at- fakedomain -dot- com" but
> which isn't part of the address.

> On the other hand,

> mailto://joe%20schmo -at- fakedomain -dot- com

> is interpreted as an address including an ASCII character 20, which
> happens to be a space.

> Mike Huber
> mike -dot- huber -at- software -dot- rockwell -dot- com

Interesting...but I've never seen an e-mail address with a space in it. It's
not kosher, is it?

Peter Kent

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