[Wikipedia-l] [Fwd: [ wikipedia-Bugs-584804 ] URL followed by punctuation->broken link]

[Daniel Mayer]

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