Re: lynx-dev dotless IP-address in URLs

[mattack]

On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, David Woolley wrote:
>> Do you think it could be a job for Lynx to try to decode these to a
>> "dot address" before connecting.
>
>They are illegal URLs used for illegal purposes - I see no reason at
>all why Lynx should support them.

I was the previous person who asked about this subject, likely within
the last year.

I fully agree that I've only ever seen them in spam.  However why are
they "illegal" URLs?  Is it specifically said that they are not supported?

Since nslookup supports that format fine, and that format is given as
one of the proper methods for showing an IP address, I'm just curious about
how this is 'illegal', since I'd _expect_ (as in I have no proof) the URL 
standard to say something along the lines of:

one valid format of an http URL is:

http://IP#/blah.html

where "IP#" is any form of describing an IP address as described in RFC XYZ.