FS Assorted mtb type stuff

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One of tehm [...]

I am Ian Smith and I claim my five pounds.

Mark Thompson said:

<URL:http://search.ebay.co.uk/
_W0QQgotopageZ1QQsassZleQ2dtriggerQQsosortorderZ1QQsosortpropertyZ1>

Stand by for another auction when they realise they'll need to buy
something for the generator to run.

url borked
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"Bob"

'The people have spoken, the [censored]'

Email address is spam trapped.
To reply directly remove the beverage.

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Call me Bob said:

Mark Thompson said:

<URL:http://search.ebay.co.uk/
_W0QQgotopageZ1QQsassZleQ2dtriggerQQsosortorderZ1QQsosortpropertyZ1>

Stand by for another auction when they realise they'll need to buy
something for the generator to run.

url borked

you need to get it all on one line, with no gaps.
or use http://tinyurl.co.uk/q70x
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Martin Bulmer

In news:[email hidden],

Martin Bulmer said:

In news:[email hidden],

Call me Bob said:

Mark Thompson said:

<URL:http://search.ebay.co.uk/
_W0QQgotopageZ1QQsassZleQ2dtriggerQQsosortorderZ1QQsosortpropertyZ1>

Stand by for another auction when they realise they'll need to buy
something for the generator to run.

url borked

you need to get it all on one line, with no gaps.
or use http://tinyurl.co.uk/q70x

OK, so that doesn't work either. I got there by doing copy & paste on the
long, 2-line url into notepad, removing a gap, then copy & paste into IE
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Martin Bulmer

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Mark Thompson said:

<URL:http://search.ebay.co.uk/
_W0QQgotopageZ1QQsassZleQ2dtriggerQQsosortorderZ1QQsosortpropertyZ1>

Stand by for another auction when they realise they'll need to buy
something for the generator to run.

url borked

Strictly, your software borked. There's nothing wrong with the URL as
given; it's in the correct format as described in RFC1738 in which the
URL is defined. The RFC says

<quote cite="RFC1738">
In addition, there are many occasions when URLs are included in other
kinds of text; examples include electronic mail, USENET news
messages, or printed on paper. In such cases, it is convenient to
have a separate syntactic wrapper that delimits the URL and separates
it from the rest of the text, and in particular from punctuation
marks that might be mistaken for part of the URL. For this purpose,
is recommended that angle brackets ("<" and ">"😉, along with the
prefix "URL:", be used to delimit the boundaries of the URL. This
wrapper does not form part of the URL and should not be used in
contexts in which delimiters are already specified.

...

In some cases, extra whitespace (spaces, linebreaks, tabs, etc.) may
need to be added to break long URLs across lines. The whitespace
should be ignored when extracting the URL.
</quote>

If your software does not conform to the spec, it isn't the spec that's
at fault. Fix your software.

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Martin Bulmer said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

url borked

you need to get it all on one line, with no gaps.
or use http://tinyurl.co.uk/q70x

OK, so that doesn't work either. I got there by doing copy & paste on the
long, 2-line url into notepad, removing a gap, then copy & paste into IE

Got it, thanks. Agent tends to be pretty well behaved about these
things, and when a url is split across a couple of lines I always
rebuild manually without problem. What threw me this time was the ebay
url didn't look like one I'd noticed before, I didn't realize the
gubbins below was part of the original. Silly me, and thanks.
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"Bob"

'The people have spoken, the [censored]'

Email address is spam trapped.
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([email hidden]'😉 wrote:

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Quoted message said:

On 21 Oct 2004 22:39:15 GMT, Mark Thompson
<[email hidden]> wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

<URL:http://search.ebay.co.uk/
_W0QQgotopageZ1QQsassZleQ2dtriggerQQsosortorderZ1QQsosortpropertyZ1>

Stand by for another auction when they realise they'll need to buy
something for the generator to run.

url borked

Strictly, your software borked. There's nothing wrong with the URL as
given; it's in the correct format as described in RFC1738 in which the
URL is defined. The RFC says

<snip>

Quoted message said:

If your software does not conform to the spec, it isn't the spec that's
at fault. Fix your software.

Mmm software borked, well in that case OE is borked and Mozilla is
too, as that URL doesn't work in either of them suspect there is a
line return in the middle of that URL (between .uk/ and _WOQQ )

Donovan's brain said:

Simon Brooke said:

If your software does not conform to the spec, it isn't the spec that's
at fault. Fix your software.

Mmm software borked, well in that case OE is borked and Mozilla is
too, as that URL doesn't work in either of them suspect there is a
line return in the middle of that URL (between .uk/ and _WOQQ )

Agent, too.
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"Bob"

'The people have spoken, the [censored]'

Email address is spam trapped.
To reply directly remove the beverage.

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suspect there is a
line return in the middle of that URL (between .uk/ and _WOQQ )

<cuts, pastes into word. Swears.>

Ooops. Sorry 'bout that.

Mark Thompson said:

Stupidly I gave my email addy to a student cycling clubby thing one
freshers' fair, and since then have been bombarded with emails. One of
tehm mentioned raising money for a generator to take to events and power
lights, pressure washer etc. They've scraped together a few bits (incl a
couple of frames) to raise a bit of cash. Take a look if you've had
anything nicked from your bike recently.

<URL:http://search.ebay.co.uk/
_W0QQgotopageZ1QQsassZleQ2dtriggerQQsosortorderZ1QQsosortpropertyZ1>

Stand by for another auction when they realise they'll need to buy
something for the generator to run.

If somebody here is from that club tell me who I have to throttle to get
the emails stopped.

Mark.

--
Dr Tim King
Anatomy
St George's Hospital Medical School
LONDON SW17 ORE

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brain (') said:

Simon Brooke said:

in message <[email hidden]>, Call me Bob
([email hidden]'😉 wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

On 21 Oct 2004 22:39:15 GMT, Mark Thompson
<[email hidden]> wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

><URL:http://search.ebay.co.uk/
>_W0QQgotopageZ1QQsassZleQ2dtriggerQQsosortorderZ1QQsosortpropertyZ1>
>
>Stand by for another auction when they realise they'll need to buy
>something for the generator to run.

url borked

Strictly, your software borked. There's nothing wrong with the URL as
given; it's in the correct format as described in RFC1738 in which
the URL is defined. The RFC says

<snip>

Quoted message said:

If your software does not conform to the spec, it isn't the spec
that's at fault. Fix your software.

Mmm software borked, well in that case OE is borked and Mozilla is
too, as that URL doesn't work in either of them suspect there is a
line return in the middle of that URL (between .uk/ and _WOQQ )

Yup, I agree that's probably why, but OE _is_ borked - the RFC
specifically says it 'the whitespace should be ignored'.

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Simon Brooke popped their head over the parapet saw what was going on
and said

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in message <[email hidden]>, Donovan's

brain (') said:

Simon Brooke said:

in message <[email hidden]>, Call me
Bob ([email hidden]'😉 wrote:

Quoted message said:

> On 21 Oct 2004 22:39:15 GMT, Mark Thompson
> <[email hidden]> wrote:

Quoted message said:

> > <URL:http://search.ebay.co.uk/
> >

_W0QQgotopageZ1QQsassZleQ2dtriggerQQsosortorderZ1QQsosortpropertyZ1>

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

> >
> > Stand by for another auction when they realise they'll need
> > to buy something for the generator to run.
>
> url borked

Strictly, your software borked. There's nothing wrong with the
URL as given; it's in the correct format as described in RFC1738
in which the URL is defined. The RFC says

<snip>

Quoted message said:

If your software does not conform to the spec, it isn't the spec
that's at fault. Fix your software.

Mmm software borked, well in that case OE is borked and Mozilla
is too, as that URL doesn't work in either of them suspect there is
a line return in the middle of that URL (between .uk/ and _WOQQ )

Yup, I agree that's probably why, but OE _is_ borked - the RFC
specifically says it 'the whitespace should be ignored'.

Genuine question, is a line return interperated as a "white space" ?

--
yours S

Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione

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Genuine question, is a line return interperated as a "white space" ?

Yup. Whitespace is anything that isn't a character. How much clearer
could you want it? ;-)

Jon

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In article <[email hidden]>,
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Genuine question, is a line return interperated as a "white space" ?

Yup. Whitespace is anything that isn't a character.

Nonsense. Control characters aren't whitespace, and space characters
are both characters and whitespace.

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In article said:

In article <[email hidden]>,
[email hidden] says...

Quoted message said:

Genuine question, is a line return interperated as a "white space" ?

Yup. Whitespace is anything that isn't a character.

Nonsense. Control characters aren't whitespace

Should read "Control characters aren't _all_ whitespace" (and assumes "isn't
a character" really means "isn't a printing character" (!isprint(c)), since
"isn't a character of any sort" doesn't make sense).

Alan Braggins [email hidden] opined the following...

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Should read "Control characters aren't _all_ whitespace" (and assumes "isn't
a character" really means "isn't a printing character" (!isprint(c)), since
"isn't a character of any sort" doesn't make sense).

As I said... clear as mud! ;-)

"Whitespace is the set of characters that are not in the set of non-
whitespace characters"!

Jon

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Simon Brooke popped their head over the parapet saw what was going on
and said

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Donovan's brain (') said:

Simon Brooke wrote:
> in message <[email hidden]>, Call me
> Bob ([email hidden]'😉 wrote:

> > On 21 Oct 2004 22:39:15 GMT, Mark Thompson
> > <[email hidden]> wrote:

> > > <URL:http://search.ebay.co.uk/
> > >

_W0QQgotopageZ1QQsassZleQ2dtriggerQQsosortorderZ1QQsosortpropertyZ1>

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

> > >
> > > Stand by for another auction when they realise they'll need
> > > to buy something for the generator to run.
> >
> > url borked
>
> Strictly, your software borked. There's nothing wrong with the
> URL as given; it's in the correct format as described in RFC1738
> in which the URL is defined. The RFC says
<snip>

> If your software does not conform to the spec, it isn't the spec
> that's at fault. Fix your software.

Mmm software borked, well in that case OE is borked and Mozilla
is too, as that URL doesn't work in either of them suspect there is
a line return in the middle of that URL (between .uk/ and _WOQQ )

Yup, I agree that's probably why, but OE _is_ borked - the RFC
specifically says it 'the whitespace should be ignored'.

Genuine question, is a line return interperated as a "white space" ?

Yup. I quoted the paragraph from the RFC further up thread. It is,
unfortunately, normal for Microsoft to deliberately break standards in
small but significant ways; it's part of their modus operandi
(convicted monopolists on two continents now, but it doesn't stop 'em).

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