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001094_marca@wintermu….ncsa.uiuc.edu _Wed May 12 07:13:30 1993.msg
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Date: Wed, 12 May 93 00:36:33 -0500
From: marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
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To: Marc VanHeyningen <mvanheyn@cs.indiana.edu>
Cc: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch, uri@bunyip.com
Subject: Re: Mail addresses as URLs
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General comments...
smtp is not only cryptic but also not wholly appropriate -- one never
gets information *from* smtp the protocol, and the act of simply
firing off a mail message via the system mailer doesn't really have
anything to do with smtp anyway.
mailto is the most appropriate one I can think of -- mail should be
reserved for reading mailboxes, for if and when that becomes an issue.
It makes little sense to mangle the address into something like
mailto://ncsa.uiuc.edu/marca; what happens with nonstandard addresses
such as uunet!foobaz!bar@cs.utexas.edu or foobar%foobaz@glom.com or
some of the more cryptic addresses (e.g., gatewayed through Sprintmail
-- anyone seen one of those yet? strange stuff...) that are starting
to pop up? Sure, there can be mappings established, but why bother?
Cheers,
<a href="mailto:marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu">Marc</a>