- From: Russell Steven Shawn O'Connor <roconnor@wronski.math.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 12:31:38 -0500 (EST)
- To: www-html@w3.org
On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, Benjamin Franz wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, Russell Steven Shawn O'Connor wrote:
> Possibly because both 'made' and 'owner' have been so extensively strip
> mined by web crawling spambots that even people who *used* to use them now
> deliberately omit them to reduce their junk mail load. I *NEVER* expose an
> email address on a web page directly if I can help it.
This reduces the usefulness of your web page to your readers. It also
isn't a reason to revome it from the spces.
> And I would say they are of very little use otherwise since you couldn't
> even fill the fingers of one hand with the number of browsers that do
> something intelligent with it.
Lack of browser support is not a good reason to remove it from the specs.
> Last time I checked, even Lynx couldn't handle anything except mailto:
> for the HREF - handling http: would be much better since I could direct
> people to a page with real information.
The Lynx I have handles http links.
--
Russell O'Connor roconnor@uwaterloo.ca
<URL:http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/%7Eroconnor/>
"And truth irreversibly destroys the meaning of its own message"
-- Anindita Dutta, "The Paradox of Truth, the Truth of Entropy"
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