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Date:      Fri, 31 Aug 2001 00:04:08 +0400 (MSD)
From:      .@babolo.ru
To:        setantae@submonkey.net
Cc:        Raymond.Wiker@fast.no, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Should URL's be pervasive.
Message-ID:  <200108302004.AAA10716@aaz.links.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20010830163623.A12559@cartman.techsupport.co.uk> from "Ceri" at "Aug 30, 1 04:36:23 pm"

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Ceri writes:
> 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 ?
Tracing route using tcp packets with destination address
of www.ufp.org and destination port 80.

> 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) ?

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