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OCR: NewsWatcher 2.0 Opening Email Addresses When you open a mailto URL, News sWatcher opens a new mail message window with the To header field filled in with the email address from the URL This makes it easy to send mail message to the person In addition to full formal mailto URLs, News sWatcher recognizes simple email addresses without the "mailto: prefix For example both of the following are recognized as email address references mailto: -doe@flunku edu j-doe@flunku .edu with few exceptions NewsWatcher cannot recognize simple email addresses they are enclosed in angle brackets For example <j-doe@flunku.edu> (BAD doesn't work!) The reason this doesn' work is because email addresses and news message ids ar syntactically indistinguishable If you tried to open bad example above NewsW Would try t ...