Re: Help Perl and Excel--Multiposted

Brian McCauley schreef:

BTW: I think your formatting of the message IDs is non-canonical.
AFAIK they should conventionally be prefixed news: xor enclosed in <>.

No. The <enclosing> is meant to give a news-client a chance if the URI
gets wrapped.

See the APPENDIX section of RFC 1738 (or Appendix C of RFC 3986). In
those days (1994), the proposed format was <URL:scheme:...> but the
"URL:" part never got popular (and even causes problems with some
clients).

<quote source="rfc2396">
The prefix "URL:" (with or without a trailing space) was recommended
as a way to used to help distinguish a URL from other bracketed
designators, although this is not common in practice.
[...]
Yes, Jim, I found it under "http://www.w3.org/Addressing/";,
but you can probably pick it up from <ftp://ds.internic.
net/rfc/>. Note the warning in <http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/
ietf/uri/historical.html#WARNING>.
</quote>

The 'news:' should be there, not just because popular clients
irrevocably default to 'mailto:' but because it is RFC compliant.

See RFC 3986 (updates 1738; obsoletes 2732, 2396, 1808).

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Affijn, Ruud

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