# Re: <URL:...> considered harmful

Michael Mealling (Michael.Mealling@oit.gatech.edu)
Tue, 13 Sep 1994 09:48:19 -0400 (EDT)

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    From: Michael.Mealling@oit.gatech.edu (Michael Mealling)

    Message-Id: <199409131348.JAA13927@oit.gatech.edu>

    Subject: Re: <URL:...> considered harmful

    To: avatar@jolt.mpx.com.au (Andrew Pam)

    Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 09:48:19 -0400 (EDT)

    In-Reply-To: <m0qkQF8-0005tXC@jolt.mpx.com.au> from "Andrew Pam" at Sep 13, 94 03:17:22 pm

Andrew Pam said this:
> > OK... we're at the "last call" stage, and this <URL:...> silliness is
> > still in there. I thought it would die of its own weight, but
> > alas... So I'll go to bat one last time:
>
> I support Daniel's objections to the <URL:...> syntax.

Qualify that, please. The current spec says that <URL:...> is only a suggestion
for those instances where you have no context for knowing what this
thing is. Are you objecting against that or are you objecting against it
being REQUIRED which is what some older drafts said.

If you don't like it then don't use it. Everyone else wants to though.

-MM

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