From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 30 8:36:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cartman.techsupport.co.uk (cabletel1.cableol.net [194.168.3.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CB9B37B405 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 08:36:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ceri@techsupport.co.uk) Received: from ceri by cartman.techsupport.co.uk with local (Exim 3.31 #1) id 15cTrj-0003MH-00; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 16:36:23 +0100 Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 16:36:23 +0100 From: Ceri To: Raymond Wiker Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Should URL's be pervasive. Message-ID: <20010830163623.A12559@cartman.techsupport.co.uk> Reply-To: setantae@submonkey.net References: <20010830111018.A97057@ussenterprise.ufp.org> <20010830161505.A11705@cartman.techsupport.co.uk> <15246.23364.719158.606166@raw.grenland.fast.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <15246.23364.719158.606166@raw.grenland.fast.no>; from Raymond.Wiker@fast.no on Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 05:27:00PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 05:27:00PM +0200, Raymond Wiker said: > Ceri writes: > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 11:10:18AM -0400, Leo Bicknell said: > > > > > > I ran into a pair of all too common annoyances this morning that > > > got me thinking. Via the magic of cut and paste I ended up with > > > the following two sorts of command lines: > > > > > > mutt mailto:bicknell@ufp.org > > > traceroute http://www.ufp.org/ > > > > Please don't do this. > > FreeBSD is not a web browser. > > mount some.server:/usr/src /usr/src mount /usr/src from some.server on /usr/src > scp user@some.server:file . copy file from some.server to ., using user's privileges > fetch http://some.server/file fetch file from some.server using the http protocol WTF is ``traceroute http://www.ufp.org/'' supposed to mean ? As for ``mutt mailto:bicknell@ufp.org'', according to RFC 2822, mailto:bicknell@ufp.org; is a valid group address, so how do you want to deal with that (yes, there's a semicolon required, but that just introduces more fun when dealing with shells) ? Ceri [changing my reply-to address as I'm off home now] -- # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message