I noted that some of the many URL's in my EDSTAT post of 16 Jun 2003 12:25:28-0700 titled "Re: Mathematica's Report on After-School Learning Programs," have not been correctly hot-linked.
For example, in the third paragraph of my post I wrote (as submitted):
". . . visit the splendid AERA-D search engine <http://lists.asu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?S1=aera-d>;. . . ."
but that passage appears on the archives as
". . . visit the splendid AERA-D search engine <http://lists.asu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?S1=> aera-d;. . . ."
The hot linking occurs only for the section of the URL UP TO THE EQUAL SIGN, i.e., only for the "http://lists.asu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?S1"; part of the URL. As a result, when subscribers click on the URL they receive a panel such as "Error-invalid parameter."
Similar problems occur with all the many URL's containing equal signs in my post.
Of course, subscribers who are aware of the difficulty can merely copy and past the entire URL into their browser windows, but this is somewhat inconvenient.
I looked for similar hot-link problems in the EDSTAT posts of June 1-3 on the archives, but I could not find any because in those posts:
a. there were very few URL's, and
b. when URL's appeared they did not contain equal signs.
I noted in my URL examination that EDSTAT'ers evidently do not generally follow the convention of placing angle brackets around URL's so as to usually preserve hot-linking across line breaks in most server/mail-system programs in accord with suggestion #9 (Hake 2002):
"Give URL's as <http://www......> (note the angle brackets) so that
they will usually survive line breaks and are hot-linked [note that <www.....> is NOT hot-linked]. CHECK ALL URL'S IN YOUR MESSAGE TO BE SURE THEY WORK."
In any case, I wonder if the "Anti-Hot-Link Bug" can be exterminated.
Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University 24245 Hatteras Street, Woodland Hills, CA 91367 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake> <http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~sdi>
REFERENCES
Hake, R.R. 2002. "Bad URL? & Thirteen Posting Suggestions was 'Re: Item analysis for multiple choice exams,'" AERA-D post of 17 Oct 2002 11:14:50-0700; online at <http://lists.asu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0210&L=aera-d&P=R3188>. [If EDSTAT's Anti-Hot-Link bug is still active, it will be necessary to copy and past the entire URL (between the angle brackets) into your browser window.
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