On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Brian Knittel wrote:
> Sorry to pester y'all again on this, but I noticed
> in our log file that there was some confusion about
> the URL to pick up the code, schematics and documentation
> for the USB Documation punched card reader interface:
> the period at the end was part of the sentence, not part
> of the URL. Sorry about that. So, to the person at
> Apple and the person at Boeing -- sorry! Here
> is the URL sans punctuation:
>
> http://www.quarterbyte.com/cardread.zip
I always post my URLs on their own line because of this very issue. Some
netiquette guide a few years back from Wired or something suggested
putting URLs inline, I think even suggesting that putting periods at the
end if they complete a sentence is acceptable. What a dumb suggestion.
The only time a URL should be inline is if it's delimited with something
or is a properly denoted hyperlink (i.e. is a different color than
surrounding text or underlined).
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Received on Mon Aug 18 2003 - 22:08:00 BST