From: "Jakob Bruhns" <xxxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx>
To: "info@webword.com" <john@webword.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 3:56 PM
Subject: Re: WebWord Addiction (22-May-2002)


Hi John,

On 22 May 2002, you wrote:
> Hyperlinks in Email (WebWord) -- "Email usability can be
[snip]

Thank you for that -- I really enjoyed that piece. However, I
think that the angle brackets which you actually mention, but
were dissuaded from using, are the way to go. Only you should
include a space, like you auggest with the parentheses.

You get a syntax like this:

<URL: http://webword.com/ >

In an empirical test we did on a Danish newsgroup this format was
the most widely recognized by different emailclients. Actually it
is also defined in RFC 1738 as the suggested way of writing URLS
in email:
<URL: http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/rfc/rfc1738.html >

Note that it does not suggest the spaces, but as I said our
emipircal test indicated that that way was more succesful. The
syntax also has the advantage (for emailclients that supports it)
that it supports URLs that are broken over more than one line.

Best,
Jakob