Formatted vs. plain text mail

[Paul Sladen]

On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Jeff Bailey wrote:
> Looking through my email history, it looks more like 20 - 25%, if you
> include clickable links.

"For security reasons" and to make sure that people end up with what they're
expecting, if you're going to put a link in an email it's generally
preferable to spell it you in full:

  http://www.ubuntu.com/

These days, regexs in the terminal-emulator or email-client will pick this
URL up[0] and do useful things with it (eg. Right Click->Open Link) so I
expect that it may even be less useful.

Bah, I'm perpetuating this thread...

	-Paul

[0] except when the URL contains unescaped (' ') spaces;  or when launchpad
wraps the URL at each ('-') hyphen.
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