Michael Lee's Train of Thought

Monday, April 24, 2006

Period

One of the frustrating things of the modern era is when sentence structure collides with the internet.

More than once I've sent out plain text e-mails to a website, like http://www.michaell.org/schedule.phtml, but since the sentence ends with the URL, my instinct is to end the sentence on a period.

Of course, the problem then is that e-mail readers assume that the trailing period is a part of the URL -- so you get e-mails about sending the wrong address, or the page isn't working.

It's sort of a strange problem -- but I can't be the only one that has had it happen...

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