Actually it does not. The real problem here is the loser MUAs and MTAs that reformat text to wrap at 60 or 80 cols. It does not matter how you paste the URL, if it is longer than 60 cols it is quite likely to get mangled en-route. If you use a modern version of outlook it will often work out how to undo the damage caused by brain-damaged line wrapping algorithms. It is not like it is difficult to write an MUA that does not wrap text or one that only inserts line breaks at spaces. Of course the even simpler solution is to use a text markup that is better suited to the purposes of email than plaintext. HTML is an improvement but not as suited to the purpose as a dedicated markup could be. -----Original Message----- From: ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx [mailto:ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of michael.dillon@xxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 2:18 PM To: ietf@xxxxxxxx Subject: RE: AMS - IETF Press Release > The strong consensus of users is that cut and paste should work for > URLs in email clients. Blame the lazyness of the email client > providers, not the users. But if you cut and paste between a pair of angle brackets, you have a much better chance of presenting the reader with a clickable URL. > I really do not think that would be how to cut and paste URLs so that > they work with MUTT. I have no idea about MUTT but I do know that pasting into a pair of angle brackets provides clickable URLs to Outlook users even if the URL contains spaces or is very long. --Michael Dillon _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx http://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx http://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf