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From:
Mark Reed
Date:
April 22, 2005 13:58
Subject:
Re: -X's auto-(un)quoting?
Message ID:
BE8EDD97.3CE9%mark.reed@turner.com
> Anyway, is there any other URI scheme besides for mailto: that doesn't use
> <://>? 
> 
> It¹s optional for news:; news:comp.lang.perl is a valid URI for accessing that
> Usenet newsgroup via whatever your default news server is.
> 
> There aren¹t any slashes in the aim: scheme (not part of the IANA standard,
> but widely supported for accessing AOL-compatible IM clients from web
> browsers).
> 
> There are no slashes in tel: (telephone numbers), though I don¹t know what you
> could do with those from Perl. :)
> 
> And I¹m sure there are others.  The syntax after the colon is pretty much
> arbitrarily determined by the scheme prefix, so a global constraint on it is a
> bad idea.
> 
> -Mark
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