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Bug 15875 - The "todo" text for skipped "mailto:" links looks confusing in the summary table
Summary: The "todo" text for skipped "mailto:" links looks confusing in the summary table
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LinkChecker
Classification: Unclassified
Component: checklink (show other bugs)
Version: 4.81
Hardware: All All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: This bug has no owner yet - up for the taking
QA Contact: qa-dev tracking
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Reported: 2012-02-04 02:05 UTC by Samuel Bronson
Modified: 2013-11-03 07:34 UTC (History)
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Description Samuel Bronson 2012-02-04 02:05:35 UTC 
The online validation report for <http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-writing-modes> starts with a table containing the following entry:

> ┌───────┬─────────────┬────────────────────────────────────────┐
> │ Code  │ Occurrences │               What to do               │
> ├───────┼─────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────┤
> │ (N/A) │ 5           │ Accessing links with this URI scheme   │
> │       │             │ has been disabled in link checker.     │
> ├───────┼─────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────┤

But, it turns out that all of the links in question are "mailto:" links, which aren't so much disabled as they are *impossible* to check automatically (though it *would* be possible to check that the domains have MX records).

It seems like a more specific message would be a lot less confusing. Something along the lines of 'Automatic checking of "mailto:" links is generally impossible.', perhaps?