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Re: Individual Membership enrollment now open
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
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Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:22:16 GMT
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In article <HGI3KC.14Jn@lugnet.com>,
"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote:
> In lugnet.trains, Chris Gray wrote:
> > "Steve Barile" <sebarile@sstanamera.com> writes:
> >
> > > [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...)
When posting to a newsgroup, it seems appropriate to provide links that
work when converted to plain text.
Chris (Masi)
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| (...) Definitely! However, the FTX link notation was designed to work flawlessly with plain text. If your news or mail reader isn't displaying the links correctly, it's broken! --Todd (21 years ago, 16-Jun-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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