Re: Web-readable list archives

> List subscribers, if you are interested in how our laundry looks or
> sounds in public, please take a minute to compare/contrast the
> above installation with the prototype at
> 
>   http://www.access.digex.net/%7Easgilman/dev-access/1/

BTW, this link seems broken by now.

> One difference that may not be obvious has to do with the
> follow-up links in the prototype at my site.  This is part of a
> campaign I am on to get the work processes of the Web Access
> Initiative modified to make them more welcoming to internet users
> who move in the slow lane.
> 
> With extended mailto: URLs such as I show in the prototype, and
> Lynx or Netscape as your browser, or any others that have
> implemented the Internet Draft redefining the mailto: URL syntax,
> you can be a full participant in the group discussion without
> subjecting yourself to a firehose of list email in your inbox.

OK, I liked the mailto extension proposal too
(http://www.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-hoffman-mailto-url-01.txt)
but I think authors using these extensions should be made aware of the
incompatibility with browsers that do not support them.

In other word a mailto:dd@w3.org?subject:foo will either produce an
error on the browser side or later bounce if my browser doesn't parse
the ?header part correctly.

As a rule of thumb, it is a good idea to always provide a separate
"simple* mailto URL as well (much like before the time mailto itself
was supported widely, people were asked to provide FORM alternative of
mailto URL)

Received on Thursday, 15 May 1997 08:51:20 UTC