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Re:Bill Gates Harvard Commencement Transcript by budu3 on Tuesday June 12, 2007 @01:29PM (#27524)
The link is broken or it's not pointing to the essay.
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Re:Bill Gates Harvard Commencement Transcript by pg on Tuesday June 12, 2007 @02:47PM (#27548)
I fixed it.

(The period was getting incorporated into the url; if you turn urls into links, it's not straightforward to say where they end.)

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Re:Bill Gates Harvard Commencement Transcript by ralph on Wednesday June 13, 2007 @11:42AM (#27816)
How about also supporting the <URL:http://google.com/> syntax that the RFCs use? It would let us submit the more tricky ones. It was invented because of the problem you're having; it's ambiguous whether the trailing dot is part of the URL or not.
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