vgetty upgrade

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>>>>> "Klaus" == Klaus Lichtenwalder <Klaus.Lichtenwalder@webforum.de> writes:

    Klaus> 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.  :-)
    >> 

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

Well, what you are doing with the intention of making the URL
clickable is actually making it NON-clickable, at least in the
arhives. 

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