vgetty upgrade

Klaus Lichtenwalder (Klaus.Lichtenwalder@webforum.de)
Tue, 16 Feb 1999 12:58:01 +0000
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On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Robert J. Brown wrote:

>     The mgetty-faq can be found at
> 
> 	    HTML: <URL:http://www.webforum.de/mgetty-faq.html>
> 
> 	    Text: <URL:http://www.webforum.de/mgetty-faq.txt>
> 
>     Cheers,
>     your FAQ Maintainer
> 
> When I follow the first (HTML) link, I get:
> 
> Whoops!!!  I see what happened now!  The archiver makes hot clickable
> links out of the URLs, but the Python script has a little bug: it
> counted the trailing ">" as part of the URL, which it should not have
> done.  Or is a ">" a legal character in a URL, such as in a call to a
> CGI script?  
> 
> Anyway, I would urge the poster of the bi-weekly FAQ reminder to
> please not enclose the URLs in angle-brackets in the future, as it
> confuses my archiver script.  :-)
> 

Well, it's a standard to give a clickable URL that way. People just can
click on it instead of relying on magic in their mail readers that make
every word with www in it clickable or have to cut'n'paste it.
That said, I tend not to change it but I'm open for input. What does
everybody have to say to it ? (can answer me privately and I'll get the
summary back to the list)

Klaus

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