[jdev] confusion over user at domain JIDs and email addresses?

[Jacek Konieczny]

On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 10:56:34AM +0200, Tomasz Sterna wrote:
> 2005/7/26, Mario Salzer <xmilky at gmail.com>:
> > Consider for example a web page with textual content like follows:
                                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > 
> >     user: name
> >     jabber: creeesh at jabber.org
> >     popoflux: quit at example.com
> >     email: text at example.net
> 
> The correct URI scheme for giving email addresses is 'mailto' scheme.
> http://www.iana.org/list-archives/register-uri/msg00004.html
> 
> If you use it wrong, as in the example, or not use at all, you rely on
> guessing the rest from the context.


But the text above is not a URL list. This is just a plain-text address
list. The addresses may be linked to the proper URLs though, if it is
HTML page. That is how I understood that post. And that is a good
presentation of various Internet addresses to Aunt Tillie. She doesn't
know what "mailto" is (especially when she doesn't speak English), but
she knows what "email" is.  "xmpp:" and "mailto:" are for computers, not
users. Aunt Tillie has no need to see that, but her computer should get
that when the link is clicked.

Greets,
	Jacek