> >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.
>
> 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?

I believe the proper method would be to enclose the URL in angle
brackets (greater than/less than signs) like this <http://www.pcb-quote.com>.
Most browsers, emailers, and other software will interpret this
correctly, even over multiple lines.

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Doug Smith, SGA * Loves Park, IL * dougs@sga.org