The Ping Plan

[David J. Weller-Fahy]

* John Gruber <gruber at fedora.net> [2004-04-30 20:38 -0800]:
> It's "valid", but I think any software that's supposed to guess what
> the actual URL is should guess that it's "http://www.bleah.com", and
> that the period is not part of the URL.
>
> If I add support for this to Markdown, and you really do want to
> include a period (or comma or semi-colon) in the actual URL, then you
> will have to use angle brackets to delimit it:
>
>   <http://example.com/.>

Thinking further about it, that's probably the best way to go, especially
since that use was rare (at least I didn't see it much).  Just thought
I'd bring it up.

My compliments on the way Markdown is progressing, btw: I like it!

Regards,
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dave [ please don't CC me ]