To: robscha@data.rhein-main.de
From: dlanor@oden.se (Ronald Andersson)
Organization: 
Subject: archive keys (plus a link bug)
X-Mailer: NEWSie Version 0.88 (Atari)

Hi Robert

I have lots of Atari equipment of various types and am therefore planning
to download all of your Atari-related archives.  Thus I will also need the
archive keys for them.  I hope you can send these shortly, since I can't
begin studying your docs until the keys have arrived.

I also want to mention two problems I had in sending this request to you:

1: First I tried using the 'key request forms' on your pages, but this did
   not work, resulting in an error message from CAB.  This may of course
   be a CAB bug (I use the latest CAB 2.7 beta version), but it may also
   be a problem in the HTML code for the form.  I can't tell which...

2: When I tried to use the 'mailto' link instead, CAB did activate the
   mailer (NEWSie 0.88 beta), but without any preselected address.
   Inspecting the HTML source I found that you have inserted a space in
   between the colon and the first letter of the email address, and when
   I edited this out the link worked correctly.  Using a space here may
   work with some other browser+mailer combinations, but AFAIK it is not
   the correct way to do it.  Even so, I will suggest to Alexander that
   CAB should parse out any leading whitespace from email addresses in
   'mailto' links.  (I think it already does this for 'http' links.)

Ok, that's all for now then.

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Regards:  Ronald Andersson                     mailto:dlanor@oden.se
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