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Re: Individual Membership enrollment now open
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
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Sun, 15 Jun 2003 15:22:31 GMT
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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> writes:
> > Not to be picky, but none of those are legal URL's. URL's are not allowed to
> > have spaces in them - you are supposed to encode the spaces as %20. Its
> > possible that you meant underscores, and not spaces. I didn't try all of them,
> > but the 3 I did try didn't work for me. However, by just going to the 'legal'
> > page, I found links that did work.
> I'm guessing that Chris must be receiving the post either via news or mail,
> rather than over the web interface. This sort of confusion does seem to be on
> the upswing now... not sure whether anything can actually be done to remediate
> it. (all the URLs are indeed legal as written, the material after the space is
> their identifying or displaying tag in FTX...)
Yes, that's correct, I'm reading via NNTP. What I see for those URLs is of
the form '<' URL space tag space tag '>' . I've become used to the (Windows-
derived?) form of URLs that is '<' URL '>' . So, I assumed that the intended
URL was everything between the angle brackets. Now that I know that that
isn't always the case for URL's on Lugnet, I'll probably be OK.
However, it is a confusing format, in that it extends an already existing
convention, in a way that can look like a user error (many Windows people
end up creating URL's with spaces in them). So, perhaps there could be a
less confusing form. One possibility is <URL> (Tag Tag) instead of
the current <URL Tag Tag> .
--
Experience should guide us, not rule us.
Chris Gray cg@ami-cg.GraySage.COM
http://www.GraySage.COM/cg/
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| (...) URLs in FTX can be written both ways -- as <url> or as <url label>. (...) What's cool (IMHO) is that it extends this convention in a perfectly backward-compatible way. (...) I think that's an OK tradeoff for what is gained, don't you? (...) (...) (23 years ago, 16-Jun-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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