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On 2026-04-04 04:24, Sn!pe wrote:
> Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> wrote:
>
>> On 4/2/26 23:31, rbowman wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2 Apr 2026 14:09:45 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>>>
>>>> I also am surprized by that lack of "<URL>" wrapping.
>>>> Generally too polite to say anything about it.
>>>
>>> Pan sneers at your brackets. Maybe there is a setting someplace but I
>>> never found it.
>>
>> It is not a setting but a choice by the poster.
>> put down <> when you want to post a URL then copy
>> it between < and >.
>> It is a very minor exertion.
>> But it is Earth Day once more...
>> <https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/4/3/2376185/-Cartoon-Cut-ups-Every-Day-is-Earth-Day>
>>
>> bliss
>
> I do agree.
>
> Lack of proper URL delimiters is a pet hate of mine; I'll even go so
> far as to add delimiters to quoted URLs if they're missing. If they're
> present, long URLs can even be broken across multiple lines and still
> work.
Not all clients handle them properly. Thunderbird doesn't. I think it
does better than it did some years ago, but still has problems.
For instance, Bobbie posted an URL (it is above):
+++----------------------
But it is Earth Day once more...
<https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/4/3/2376185/-Cartoon-Cut-ups-Every-Day-is-Earth-Day>
----------------------++-
It wraps when I paste it (can't be undone). Fortunately, when posted
when posted, after clicking "send".
If I reply to Bobbie's post, I get:
+++----------------------
On 2026-04-03 16:58, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
> But it is Earth Day once more...
> <https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/4/3/2376185/-Cartoon-Cut-ups-
> Every-Day-is-Earth-Day>
----------------------++-
which doesn't work.
>
> A particular gripe is Wiki URLs ending in a right parenthesis, e.g.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can-can_(disambiguation)
Works here.
>
> That is unclickable here because my 'reader, on finding ')' at the end,
> expects there to be a paired '(' at the beginning. If the whole URL
> is properly delimited with e.g. the recommended* '<angle brackets>'
> thus:-
>
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can-can_(disambiguation)>
Also works.
>
> - it's clickable.
>
> * Other delimiters are acceptable, e.g.: (parentheses); {braces};
> [square brackets]; <angle brackets>; "double quotes"; or even
> white-space if it's the same kind of white-space at each end.
>
> It's described in:
>
> <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3986#appendix-C>
>
> Here endeth the rant.
>
--
Cheers, Carlos.
ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;
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