Tim Forcer said:

>Please could anyone intending to tell us about interesting web sites forget
>proper grammar at the time they do it.  That means NOT putting a comma, stop
>or any character other than a SPACE immediately after the URL.  URLs with
>stops (etc) at the end are perfectly legal, and your browser won't know that
>they were simply quoted as part of a grammatically correct sentence.
>Several times I've tried sites and got "unable to locate..." messages, only
>to realise I'd picked up a trailing comma.  Example from yesterday is that
>the first time the PCB quote service was mentioned it looked like this:
>
>" http://www.pcb-quote.com, "
>
>which doesn't work.
>
>Later, it got modified to
>
>" http://www.pcb-quote.com , "
>
>which does.

Good point, Tim. I was the guilty party. Your suggestion is a lot easier
than enclosing a URL in asterisks and including a disclaimer to omit them
when attempting access. Will most browsers interpret the
set-it-off-with-a-blank-space properly?

Reg Neale