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>>>>> William Perry <wmperry@aventail.com>:

> Per Abrahamsen writes:

>> Here is a patch that allows Gnus to handle mailto URLs of the form:

>> <URL:mailto:list-request@your.smartlisthost?Subject=subscribe>

>> It seems to be an undocumented Netscape extension, but I might be
>> wrong about that.  Maybe wmperry knows.

> It is definitely a netscape 'extension'.  Jamie Z. recently posted
> the closest thing to a spec they apparently have in house.  This was
> on the www-html mailing list.

Hum, yes.  If I remember correctly, it was never meant to be
published.  It was just meant as a hidden implementation detail,
because they used the same code to do several things.

Or somesuch...