On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes:
>
>> In article <mailman.1348.1276386991.32709.python-l...@python.org>,
>> geremy condra  <debat...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >Bug filed, http://bugs.python.org/issue8986.
>>
>> Please don't put extraneous punctuation on URLs.
>
> The punctuation isn't extraneous; it's a necessary part of a natural
> English sentence. That's where it belongs.
>
> Better is to follow the “Recommendations for Delimiting URI in Context”
> in RFC 2396 <URL:http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt>, which allow
> natural punctuation around such delimited URLs.

You know, I've never been a part of a community in which the
URL format was the most contentious part of filing a bug report.

Geremy Condra
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