Art (and Cheryl) > Note that somehow the "." became part of the url in Cheryl's note.
Probably because she typed it! We are all taught that a full stop - called a "period" in some geographies, in others a "point final" and so on - is, unlike a preposition as Winston Churchill reminded us, a proper thing to end a sentence with. So Cheryl probably simply followed a well-established habit. I find the best way to present an URL in a post is to put it, all by itself, on a separate line - and resist the temptation to add a full stop. There is also the opportunity in this case to mention that simply copying the URL as found in the browser field is not necessarily "best practice". Following a "?" or "/" there may be some unnecessary characters possibly related to how the page was found. Providing the minimum necessary character string should be habitual even if it might need a bit of experimentation in order to discover precisely what that is. Examples of what can be removed are "?Open", as here, and "/CCONTENTS ...". One benefit of this can be that the URL characters may no longer[1] need more than one line in order to be presented. Chris Mason [1] I really need to give up this punning habit! On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 07:52:13 -0500, Arthur Gutowski <aguto...@ford.com> wrote: >On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 11:13:12 -0400, Cheryl Walker ><che...@watsonwalker.com> wrote: > >>Although this email is a little late, a good reference for dependencies at start >up and shut down can be found in the MTTR Redbook - >http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247816.html?Open. Although the >TCP/IP issue isn't addressed, there are other dependencies that might be of >interest to people following this thread. > >Note that somehow the "." became part of the url in Cheryl's note. When I >clicked it, I got a "manual not found" page, however when I searched >for 'MTTR' in Redbooks, I got to: > >http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247816.html?Open > >D'oh... stupid listserv... > >Regards, >Art Gutowski >Ford Motor Company ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
