On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 14:17, Eric A. Hall wrote:
As to the larger question, I'm opposed to replacing the external links
with URLs. There are just as many known problems with rendering long URLs
as there are with message/external-body entities (eg, your example folded
and became unusable in Mozilla).
But you can put URLs into message/external-body (see RFC-2017). This
would be easy for receiving MUAs to implement, since most have access to
a browser one way or another; and it would be easier for users to work
with, since people are accustomed to URLs by this point. Some MUAs
already let you drag a link from a browser, or specify an attachment by
URL; adding the option to send it as a message/external-body instead of
inline would be a very small extra for users to learn.
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