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(...) Better yet, <URL:(URL) or just (URL). That way you don't have the problem presented by trying to properly punctuate a sentence ending in a URL, like this: (URL) (Is the last . part of the URL, or not?) (26 years ago, 15-Nov-98, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.publish)
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Sheesh. One little typing error and the newsgroup police come at you with their wiffle bats. <grin> (...) (26 years ago, 16-Nov-98, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.publish)
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(...) *Thwhap* *thwap* *thwap* (26 years ago, 16-Nov-98, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.publish)
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(...) Look Roby, if we didn't like you we'd just ignore you, this is our way of showing affection. We're still on for tomorrow, right? I haven't sorted the parts to bring but I will tonite. (26 years ago, 16-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) The trailing slash is actually part of the URL definition. it tells you that the hostname part of URL has ended. Jasper (26 years ago, 3-Dec-98, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.publish)
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(...) Ok, bad example. Instead, consider (URL) Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org Quotes 'R' Us ---> (URL) (26 years ago, 3-Dec-98, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.publish)
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I am glad someone replied to this thread and I found it again. There is a small difference between (URL) and <URL:(URL) One registers in some news readers, and one doesn't. You can click and go on the first one, but not on the second. Use of the (...) (26 years ago, 3-Dec-98, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.publish)
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(...) Really? This has my quite surprised, as the second one is actually the proposed standard according to RFC 1738. It is supposed give the UAs a better chance of distinguishing between URLs and other data structures in plain text. It is also (...) (26 years ago, 3-Dec-98, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.publish)
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Fredrik Glöckner wrote in message ... (...) It doesn't. Comments form others would be good. Although I always like a sample size of one (if the sample includes me) it is not very scientific. A) <URL:(URL) B) (2 URLs) LINC (26 years ago, 3-Dec-98, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.publish)
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(...) Didn't work for me either with Netscape 4.5. (...) (26 years ago, 3-Dec-98, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.publish)
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[Followup set to lugnet.publish only, as I can't see why this belongs in lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade] (...) Actually, despite what I said earlier, C) is the most convenient for me, because it's the easiest to select in an xterm (just double-click). (...) (26 years ago, 3-Dec-98, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.publish)
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(...) All the links in the above posts work in my browser, Commnicator 4.5. Dunno wich is stadard though.. --Justin (26 years ago, 4-Dec-98, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.publish)
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Linc Smith wrote in message ... :Fredrik Glöckner wrote in message ... : :>Really? This has my quite surprised, as the second one is actually the :>proposed standard according to RFC 1738. It is supposed give the UAs a :>better chance of (...) (26 years ago, 4-Dec-98, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.publish)
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(...) It works for me (Gnus), but it fails to work when it has been quoted, so it's probably not a good idea, anyway. (...) I'd say a browser not capable of understanding A is not RFC 1738 compliant, and should be fixed. However, I normally write (...) (26 years ago, 4-Dec-98, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.publish)
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(...) I'm using Free Agent 1.0, which just doesn't recognize clickable URLs - that's only for the commercial version :(. So, I kinda like to have B), for easy cut& paste capabilities. (...) And what about other tags? I could very well want to point (...) (26 years ago, 4-Dec-98, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.publish)
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