FYI: mailto URL draft

One thing we need to remember is that everytime we specify a URI, it could
be a mailto URL.  Here is the latest mailto URL draft.

- Jim

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>       Title     : The mailto URL scheme
>       Author(s) : P. Hoffman, L. Masinter
>       Filename  : draft-hoffman-mailto-url-01.txt
>       Pages     : 4
>       Date      : 03/25/1997
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>This document defines the format of Uniform Resource Locators (URL) for
>designating electronic mail addresses. It is one of a suite of documents
>which replace RFC 1738, "Uniform Resource Locators", and RFC 1808,
>"Relative Uniform Resource Locators". The syntax of "mailto" URLs from RFC
>1738 is extended to allow creation of more RFC 822 messages by allowing the
>URL to express additional header and body fields.
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Received on Thursday, 27 March 1997 00:25:50 UTC