McKirahan said:
[snip]
When posting links, enclose them in <URL: ... > so that news readers
(and maybe some web interfaces too) will treat them as URLs. It should
make copy/paste easier too.
[snip]
Oops. How about the following?
<URL:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt....st&q=table+thead+tbody+freeze+group:microsoft.
public.*&rnum=1&hl=en#b803b53a6cbebc3a>
We are definitely off-topic, but now that it has started ...
First of all, thanks to Rob for the notification. The support matrix on
<URL:
http://schneegans.de/usenet/mid-schreibweisen/> indicates that he is
right. It will take some time, but I think I will get used to including
the `URL:' prefix eventually.
As for your URL format, McKirahan, it is better now, but still broken.
The problem is (as you can see when pressing Ctrl+F3) the automagic
line-break done by your user agent, Outlook Express 5.50.4922.1500 (which
needs [security] patching urgently, BTW[0]) before submit. According to
RFC3986[1], URLs MUST NOT contain newline (any combination of CR and LF),
hence they should not be wrapped at all. I know these ways to work around
that:
a) Get a better user agent. Always recommended to OE users.
Out of personal experience, I can recommend Mozilla Thunderbird[2]
for Windows and KNode[3] for GNU/Linux (where the latter perhaps
can also run on Cygwin/X).
b) Disable automatic line-break. You will have to do all your
line-breaks manually but at least URLs and source code are
not line-broken.
c) Use tools like OE-Tools[4] (no longer maintained) or OE Quotefix[5]
(I have never used the latter so I don't know if it is capable
of the task discussed).
d) Post via a local news server like Morver[6] or Hamster[7] which, with
the support from addition programs like KorrNews[8], can error-correct
your postings before they are submitted to the remote news server.
.... let us end it here and please address further questions or comments
regarding this topic only to the appropriate newsgroup[9] or to me via
private e-mail.
HTH
Followup-To (F'up2) PointedEars
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[0] <URL:
http://insideoe.com/>),
[1] <URL:
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt>
[2] <URL:
http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/>
[3] <URL:
http://knode.sourceforge.net/>
[4] <URL:
http://www.uni-bonn.de/~hoelken/default.html>
<URL:
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http://www.uni-bonn.de/~hoelken/default.html&langpair=de
en>
[5] <URL:
http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/>
[6] <URL:
http://www.morver.de/english.htm>
[7] <URL:
http://www.tglsoft.de/>
[8] <URL:
http://www.tglsoft.de/misc/hamtools_en.htm>
[9] <URL:news:microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie55.outlookexpress>