Re: [CH] plain-text links (was Spam-bots)
Brent Thompson (brent@kanha.hpl.hp.com)
Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:32:01 -0700
> Having been on the receiving end of several complaints as to why my
> plain text links are not clickable ...
This has to be just a function of the client mail reader.
I use one mail-reader that is not HTML-aware (but really fast, which is
good) and no link is clickable in any message, no matter how it is
formatted in that message.
And I sometimes use another mail-reader (gmail) that is HTML-aware and
every link is clickable in any message, no matter how it is formatted in
that message (it automatically understands that stuff beginning with
'http[s]://' is a URL, so it makes everything like that a link).
My test message to verify this behavior absolutely positively contained no
extra characters, only a few random words with 'http://blah-blah-blah'
interspersed, and result was as always before and as described above.
I don't know personally, but it may be some mail reader(s) work half way
between, only understanding something is a URL if it is embedded in
special, perhaps proprietary, encoding. Somehow the vision of Microsoft
comes to mind.
--- Brent