[boost] Re: What is it with boost and tinyurl?

From: Anthony Williams (anthony_w.geo_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-07-21 10:16:15

David Abrahams <dave_at_[hidden]> writes:

> Miro Jurisic <macdev_at_[hidden]> writes:

>> Finally, URL line wrapping is a well-understood problem, with a recommended
>> practice (namely, enclosing URLs in text inside <>, as I did above)
>> codified in the current URL RFC. Every email and usenet client I am aware
>> of does the right thing with line-wrapped URLs in angle brackets.
>
> Not mine.  Or maybe it's your mailer.  Either way, Gnus is showing it
> wrapped and only the first line of the link is active.  Those Gnus
> guys are comparatively pretty aware of standards, too.

Interestingly, the gnus function to remove newlines from URLs
(gnus-article-unsplit-urls), which I normally find does a great job, doesn't
work on the split URL in the original post.

Anthony
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Anthony Williams
Senior Software Engineer, Beran Instruments Ltd.