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[koyaanisqatsi at nupedia.com]

That sounds like a good idea.  If I had a link that had its own punctuation in it already, I would try to avoid confusing the matter by putting any more punctuation around it.

kq

Lee wrote:
>The remaining questions,
>then, are the exact details.  Exactly which characters do we want
>to consider "punctuation", and under what circumstances?  My
>suggestion is this: After parsing URLs the way it does now, if the
>URL ends with one, and exactly one, of the characters period, comma,
>question mark, or exclamation; then remove that character and
>assume it punctuates the sentence. Otherwise, leave the URL alone.