Re: support for setext, the structure-enhanced text format, in WWW

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To: Guido.van.Rossum@cwi.nl
Cc: ianf@random.se (Ian Feldman), www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Subject: Re: support for setext, the structure-enhanced text format, in WWW 
In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 26 Apr 93 10:18:28.
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Date: Mon, 26 Apr 93 04:52:05 EDT
From: Edward Vielmetti <emv@garnet.msen.com>

If we make a tiny hack to the WWW "news reader", e.g the thing that
parses NNTP articles, so that text of the form
    file://ftp.msen.com:/pub/emv/
or
    gopher://gopher.msen.com:70/
or other URLs standing by themselves on a line get treated as if they 
were something like
    <a href=file://ftp.msen.com:/pub/emv/></a>
then et voila we get very inexpensive hypertext links from inside news.

To simplify the parsing assume only that the URL is surrounded by whitespace.
Nothing else on the line.

I think this would work OK with both 'setext' and 'simplemail', so
long as both proposals are sparing with markup.

--Ed