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Subject: 
Re: Parts Sale....
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lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade
Date: 
Sun, 25 Apr 1999 19:59:20 GMT
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In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, cjc@NOSPAMnewsguy.com (Mike Stanley)
writes:
Sorry, meant to say - This link does not work, unless you remover the
period after ...html

Hrmmm...  I normally try to not punctuate a sentence with a URL in it,
but I just went to this page before reading your comments and, without
thinking, only copied up to the l  - didn't touch the period.

Wouldn't most people do that?

Well, if you have to type in the URL by hand, or cut & paste it by hand,
then yes.  But many modern newsreaders display a hyperlink to click on,
and very few of these are smart enough to know when to remove the trailing
punctuation.  :)

--Todd



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  Re: Parts Sale....
 
(...) Ah, dumb Windows programs, probably. I just copy and paste by hand. By mouse, actually, but you know what I mean. And actually, SecureCRT can launch a URL when I see one displayed in a SSH session (usually while reading news with slrn), but (...) (26 years ago, 25-Apr-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
  Re: Parts Sale....
 
Well, Communicator 4.5 removed it. The problem is when the algorithm doesn't work, like with parens :-/ (...) (26 years ago, 27-Apr-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)

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(...) Hrmmm... I normally try to not punctuate a sentence with a URL in it, but I just went to this page before reading your comments and, without thinking, only copied up to the l - didn't touch the period. Wouldn't most people do that? (26 years ago, 25-Apr-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)

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