Re: <a href="mailto:email address">

Harold A. Driscoll wrote:
> Much more creditable references would be the current URL specification
> (check the RFC index for number) and the Internet-Draft library for the
> proposed enhancements to the mailto scheme.
> 
> My recollection is that links or copies of both documents are available at
> the W3C site, likely in one of the technical documents areas.

specifically:

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http://www.w3.org/Addressing/schemes#mailto

mailto: 
     Electronic mail address
     "The mailto URL scheme", P. Hoffman, L. Masinter, J. Zawinski, 02
Jan 1998.
     <draft-hoffman-mailto-url-04.txt> 
     (updates URL RFC) 
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(oops! draft 4 is gone... it's now draft 5:)

http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/uri/draft-hoffman-mailto-url-05.txt
http://www.w3.org/Addressing/rfc1738.txt

If the caveats Harold mentioned aren't sufficiently documented
in those specs, please notify the editors.

-- 
Dan Connolly
http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/

Received on Saturday, 4 July 1998 12:52:27 UTC