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[Mark H. Nichols]

On Nov 30, 2007, at 10:16 AM, Nils Kassube wrote:

> Mark H. Nichols wrote:
>> On Nov 30, 2007, at 9:45 AM, Nils Kassube wrote:
>>> Tab Gilbert wrote:
>>>> Plus, the link was broken.
>>>
>>> Sorry, but which link do you mean?
>>
>> Earlier in the thread Angel typed
>>
>> 	im new in linux als.bt i think,i can help u.
>>
>> His (her?) typing style caused some to suggest, perhaps tongue in
>> cheek, that s/he was attempting to spam the list with a broken link.
>
> But there is no link in the text you quoted (at least not in the  
> non-html
> part) and not in the original mail. I think you see a fake link  
> caused by
> your email program.

.bt is the domain for Bhutan.  Some email clients saw the characters  
"als.bt" in the original posting and interpreted them as http:// 
als.bt, a site that doesn't exist.

Mark
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