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Date:      Sun, 7 Sep 1997 19:27:02 -0400
From:      Matthew Hunt <hunt@mph124.rh.psu.edu>
To:        John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
Cc:        =?iso-8859-1?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/www/netscape4 Makefile ports/www/netscape4/files         md5 ports/www/netscape4/pkg PLIST
Message-ID:  <19970907192702.02037@mph124.rh.psu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970907181056.12725O-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>; from John Fieber on Sun, Sep 07, 1997 at 06:17:30PM -0500
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970908004751.8034A-100000@lsd.relcom.eu.net> <Pine.BSF.3.96.970907181056.12725O-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>

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On Sun, Sep 07, 1997 at 06:17:30PM -0500, John Fieber wrote:

> I, for one, would not be in the *least* bit bothered by
> non-functional mailto (and presumably news) URLs in exchange for

I for one would agree with John, and suggest having separate ports,
or at least having the selection controlled by a make variable.

In general, I've always "followed" mailto links by cutting and
pasting into a decent mailer.  I can't stand waiting for the bloated
Netscape composer to start, just to use its limited feature set.
I would love it if Netscape would provide a mechanism to start a
user-selected application to handle mailto: links, just like helper
applications handle arbitrary MIME types.

I was fast enough to install ports/netscape4 today before it changed
back to Communicator, and I plan to keep it that way. :-)

-- 
Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> * Think locally, act globally.
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