Wagner and Paul,

I am ROTFL! I have learned two very good new computer terms today:

Microsoft Internet Exploder

AND

Web Salior

I think these should be in wider use ;-)

BTW, as for recognizing URLs, I don't think it is based on the WWW
portion, I think that most programs just look for http:// OR if they are
more sophistocated, they look for http:// followed by a "." before any
spaces. It would be a truly rare situation in any language to have
something which had no spaces, began with http:// and contained at least
one "."

Sean


On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Wagner Lipnharski wrote:

> ... and WWW. turns to be the bigger joker of all times, after all,
> several sites doesn't use it anyway (http://home.xxx.xxx, or
> http://anything.xxx), the funny thing here is that some phone or radio
> announcing a web site turns to be terrible, because the announcer (often
> not a web sailor) worries so much to say perfectly the three "W" spaced
> and perfectly pronounced followed by the "dot", (they take 5 whole
> seconds to say that) but them in less than half second they say the real
> thing, the one that they really should say slowly, and again, the "DOT
> COM" comes in another 3 seconds...   Sounds like this:
> DoubleU DoubleU DoubleU Dot    #@$&%    Dot COM
> We often need to replay the message 3 times to understand it.
> What is the matter with that people?
>
> Recently calling BellSouth ISDN repair, it was delaying very much, so
> came a message telling me that I had the option to send an email about
> the problem, so I heard to go to  DoubleU, DoubleU, DoubleU, Dot, then
> fast something that sounded as F or S, then N or M, then L (this one was
> easy), then B or D or it was T?, then V or it was Z?, and then finally
> the DOT COM was ok.  It took me 18 attempts of all possible combinations
> of FMLTV, SNLDZ and others until I got it, SMLBZ, of course if the
> announcer would say "abbreviation for Small Business, SMLBZ" it would be
> a lot more easy, but I think they still watching too much MTV, fast
> brain damage ;)
>
> Morgan Olsson wrote:
> > My personal opinion is that "www." should never been used ever in the first
place, it is like having a pre-dial number for earth in the phone system... !
>