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

Andrew Pam (avatar@jolt.mpx.com.au)
Wed, 14 Sep 1994 02:34:07 +1000 (EST)

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

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

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

    Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 02:34:07 +1000 (EST)

    In-Reply-To: <199409131348.JAA13927@oit.gatech.edu> from "Michael Mealling" at Sep 13, 94 09:48:19 am

> Andrew Pam said this:
> > 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.

I strongly object to it being a requirement, but since this no longer seems
to be the case it is not necessarily an insurrmountable objection to the
current draft. However, since I dislike the syntax, I would like to see it
disparaged in the draft or at least have the objections noted.

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

If everyone else liked MS Windows/stoning infidels/jumping off cliffs, would
you make it a suggested practice too? (Apologies for the examples, but this
is not a meaningful argument).

Share and enjoy,
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