[Design] url wrapping in email (Was: High End Email)

[David Jeske]

Speaking of high-end email. No email client (Chandler included) should
wrap long URLs. For some reason Apple Mail and Outlook Express both
insist on doing this, breaking the URL for many clients. For example:

On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 01:18:19PM +0100, petite_abeille wrote:
> http://guests.evectors.it/zoe/itstories/ 
> story.php?data=stories&num=63&sec=2

> http://guests.evectors.it/zoe/itstories/ 
> story.php?data=stories&num=60&sec=2

One such client is the mailing list archive, where these links turn
into gibberish.

http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2003-March/002184.html
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2003-March/002186.html

That said, Chandler might choose to implement a scheme similar to the
one I just added to our mailing list archive software to patch back
together these needlessly wrapped links:

  http://archive.neotonic.com/archive/osaf-design/msg/2202
  http://archive.neotonic.com/archive/osaf-design/msg/2204

(Added to the wiki and I'll submit the patch when code is available.)

-- 
David Jeske (N9LCA) + http://www.chat.net/~jeske/ + jeske@chat.net