On Wednesday 24 July 2002 05:56 pm, you wrote:

So far the votes are tied 2-2:

Crop final punctuation from links: Brion, Tony Include final punctuation in links: Lee, Jan

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

I say crop the final punctuation /if/ we decide to let the software recognize URLs minus the http:// as weblinks (which I think would be the user friendly thing to do anyway).

There are /far/ more valid reasons why somebody would naturally want to write "blah, blah, blah www.napster.com." than there are webpages with punctuation marks at the end of their URLs.

--mav