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From: Philip Newton <pne-news-20011230@newton.digitalspace.net>
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Subject: Re: Nerd Boy Fan Art (I hope you all like it,
 but I don't think you will  :)
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 14:40:33 +0100
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On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 11:54:28 +0000 (UTC), Triteno <tri10o@poland.com>
wrote:

> Michael Schierl says:
> >>mailto (colon) (slash) (slash) triteno (at) poland (dot) com
> > There are no slashes in mailto:links.
> 
> sure?

Yes. Similarly, there are no slashes in news links. That's because the
double slash starts a hostname (as in
ftp://ftp.example.com/path/filename.ext or
http://www.example.com/path/URL), but mailto:postmaster@example.com and
news:abcdefgh@example.com don't have a hostname.

Cheers,
Philip
-- 
Philip Newton <nospam.newton@gmx.li>
That really is my address; no need to remove anything to reply.
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.