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Old 01-15-2004, 14:06
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This is pretty retarded, I feel bad for JMI, poor guy has to change everyones diaper...how hard is it to not post a "clickable" link?
My god there is something about it in nearly every thread of this entire forum.

My personal opinion is that there is no need to put "http://" before any address. There is no normal need to define the protocol unless it is an uncommon one (i.e. ftp, gopher, telnet...etc).

Using synonyms may be an easy solution:
www(dot)exetools(dot)com

While I would post one suggestion to the webmaster.
It might be a good idea to modify the reply and post thread templates of vbullentin so that the "Automatically parse URLs " option is not checked by default.
Maybe even writing a small plugin to parse the posted threads/replies and change any instance of "http://" to "h__p://"
This might help out the admins...

I know I am not an admin, nor am I senior member. I just wanted to add my two cents.
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