[WEB4LIB] citing URLs

[Paul H. Gray]

At 05:09 PM 9/9/98 -0700, you wrote:
>>   was published 8/17/98 at  URL:
>>chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/adem2fpf/www.anchordesk.com/story/story_2432.html
>
>. . . the above is not a URL.  It does not include the
>"access method" and associated punctuation (presumably in this case
>http://, but perhaps ftp:// or https:// or something else).  . . .
>As a style matter, it's important to provide all
>the citation information people may need, which includes the access
>method.

If anyone has any doubts about the importance of this observation - here is
a simple experiment using the basic path 
link.tsl.texas.gov
http://link.tsl.texas.gov takes you to a very well designed Web page
telnet://link.tsl.texas.gov takes you to a very thoughtfully provided
character-based application which makes their information available
essentially to any computer with telnet capability.
Ultimately the data is the same - but the user interface is VASTLY
different and withouth the first part of the URL you have no way of knowing
which is intended.

Just a thought

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