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Well, Communicator 4.5 removed it. The problem is when the algorithm
doesn't work, like with parens :-/
Todd Lehman wrote:
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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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| (...) 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 (27 years ago, 25-Apr-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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