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To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (1874)	9/30/2004 5:11:00 PM
From: Done, gone.	Respond to of 6035

I'd probably rather not have SI automatically expand it to a URL since it would defeat my purpose in using it in the first place. Therefore, unless shortcuts were never to be used on SI again, expanding them in existing posts and writing them back to the database would be counter-productive IMO. Agree 100%.

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (1874)	9/30/2004 5:15:08 PM
From: rkral	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6035

In HTML language it would look like ... <A HREF="readmsg.aspx?msgid=20585960" target="_new">#reply-20585960</A> but be displayed as ... #reply-20585960 It would be quite nasty if the author had to contend with the former. Ron

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (1874)	9/30/2004 5:17:58 PM
From: Ira Player	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6035

The displayed text and the underlying link do not have to be the same. For example, in the link "SI" above, the link is: <a href='http://www.siliconinvestor.com'>SI</a> Where SI is displayed and 'http://www.siliconinvestor.com' is the link location. Personally, I would bifurcate the code and run the original text through a parser for diplay until the 15 minutes is up, then replace the origianl text with the properly formated data. Then all the text in the database would be consistently represented. One more thought on this type of issue however... Placing the expanded links in the body of the record makes retrieval faster but locks the link to the orignal location. With the "#reply" format, if the site ever changes to something other than www.SiliconInvestor.com, the link would still work when the parser is updated. Ira