(slightly OT) Dilbert

[steve harley]

they whom i call LuKreme wrote:
> 
> On 5-May-2008, at 11:31, steve harley wrote:
>> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/DilbertDailyStrip>
> 
> feedburner brings up a non-delimited URL in the form of:
> 
> http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DilbertDailyStrip/~3/281938514/
> 
> which, because of the un-encoded '~', is not recognized by mail.app, and 
> so this RSS feed is 100% useless.

i wouldn't know about Leopard Mail, but it worked in NetNewsWire 
and Safari; i'm no expert on such matters but it appears RFC 3986 
declares tildes "unreserved" and permissible un-encoded within URLs