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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=3>(I'm still not sure
that there exists today a standard way to *resolve* an email address to a
URL location, though...so calling an email address a "URL"
seems inaccurate).</blockquote><br>
I'm the world's backmost expert on the question: What is a URL,
exactly?<br><br>
So I'll just go ahead and sound off anyway, to keep the discussion
rolling.<br><br>
A URL is "a compact string representation for a resource available
via the Internet [RFC 1738]." (Yes, yes; hold your
horses.)<br><br>
"The term 'Uniform Resource Locator' ('URL') refers to the subset of
URI that identify resources via a representation of their primary access
mechanism (e.g., their network "location"), ...
[RFC2396]."<br><br>
The URI,
'<a href="mailto:joaquin@netmesh.us" eudora="autourl">
mailto:joaquin@netmesh.us</a>', refers to a resource, my inbox, via a
representation of its primary access mechanism (the <some> mail
protocol, in this case SMTP) and its network location
(<something>.netmesh.us:<something>, in this case,
smtp.netmesh.us:25, a.k.a. 204.145.147.224:25). (These details can
be discovered, I guess, by tracking down the MX record for netmesh.us (or
something like that).)<br><br>
</font><font size=4><b>So: </b></font><font size=3>The URI,
'<a href="mailto:joaquin@netmesh.us',%A0" eudora="autourl">
mailto:joaquin@netmesh.us', </a> </font><font size=4><b><i>i
s</i></b></font><font size=3> a URL.<br><br>
Fire away!<br><br>
Your,<br><br>
Joaquin<br><br>
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p.s. I write, not as one knowledgeable of all this stuff, but
as one claiming to be able to read what the plain English meaning of a
specification is.<br><br>
p.p.s Of course, there is a vital difference between what the plain
English of some specification says a URL is and what 'URL' is used to
mean in common parlance. We all know that. Me, i don't know
what 'URL' means in common parlance. No idea. All i know is
that the URI,
'<a href="mailto:joaquin@netmesh.us" eudora="autourl">
mailto:joaquin@netmesh.us</a>', is a URL. To any self respecting spec
freak.<br><br>
p.p.p.s As you all will have read, Phil has treated this subject in
more colorful terms. I agree with him that it does not matter a
whit whether
'<a href="mailto:joaquin@netmesh.us" eudora="autourl">
mailto:joaquin@netmesh.us</a>' is a URL or is not a URL.<br><br>
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