periods at end of URLs

[Sloan, Bernie]

I was using IE 3.02

Bernie Sloan
Senior Library Information Systems Consultant
University of Illinois Office for Planning & Budgeting
338 Henry Administration Building
506 S. Wright Street
Urbana, IL  61801
Phone: (217) 333-4895  
Fax: (217) 333-6355
Email: bernies at uillinois.edu

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Dorothy Day [SMTP:day at indiana.edu]
> Sent:	Thursday, March 19, 1998 2:25 PM
> To:	Sloan, Bernie
> Cc:	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject:	RE: periods at end of URLs
> 
> I think the latest Netscape (4.04) has been modified to ignore the
> trailing period and other punctuation. Earlier versions included it in
> the search and returned an error, but that no longer happens with
> recent
> versions. I don't know about IE.
> 	Dorothy Day
> 
> On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Sloan, Bernie wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Interesting........mine worked fine when I clicked on all
> > three examples.
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From:	Carole Leita [SMTP:leita at netcom.com]
> > > Sent:	Thursday, March 19, 1998 1:44 PM
> > > To:	Multiple recipients of list
> > > Subject:	periods at end of URLs
> > > 
> > > I have a request for writers including URLs in their email
> messages:
> > > Please don't end URLs with a period.
> > > 
> 
> *****
> Dorothy Day			
> School of Library and Information Science
> Indiana University
> day at indiana.edu	
> *****
> 	"He also surfs who only sits and waits."
>