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Re:The importance of “http://” by ugh on Sunday April 18, 2010 @09:24AM (#1274791)
- the users will alter their behavior when mentioning the URLs (as I did just above). And will wonder why they are not linkable.

What?! I know of no one who ever, ever, ever said http:// when mentioning a URL. I certainly don’t do that.

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Re:The importance of “http://” by ay on Sunday April 18, 2010 @09:35AM (#1274800) 

  #define mention(url) type_or_paste_into_facebook(url)
Sorry that my wording was unclear. "referencing in writing elsewhere" might have been a better one.
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Re:The importance of “http://” by krainboltgreene on Sunday April 18, 2010 @09:51AM (#1274824)
People have been using "lol, hey, go to www.google.com" for years without problems.
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