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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 22:39:45 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> In lugnet.trains, Chris Gray wrote:
> > "Steve Barile" <sebarile@sstanamera.com> writes:
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> > > [Individual] membership enrollment is now open! So please drop by
> > > <http://www.ILTCO.org ILTCO> and join now by clicking on the word and
> > > <http://www.iltco.org/members/profile.php JOIN> found on the right side of the
> > > page just below the gray horizontal menu bar. We encourage you (as required by
> > > the membership application) to read the <http://www.iltco.org/legal/ Bylaws>,
> > > <http://www.iltco.org/legal/ Policies & Procedures>, and the
> > > <http://www.iltco.org/legal/ Terms of Service>. These along with the
> > > <http://www.iltco.org/faq/ FAQ> will answer many questions you may have. For
> >
> > 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.
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> 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...)
Unfortunately, the design of FTX is somewhat flawed when it comes to
standard news and mail readers. Enclosing a URL in angle brackets <...>
is a hint to most news/mail readers that a long URL that spans more than
one line should be reassembled by compressing out any whitespace.
There is essentially no chance that mail/news readers will ever switch
over to FTX conventions. The most prudent coarse of action would be
to modify to FTX to peacefully coexist with standard mail/news readers.
Since I do not know who designed FTX, I have no idea how feasible it
is to modifiy the FTX specification to correct this problem.
-Wayne
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