In article <44043b4c-ffad-437e-a8d4-5b049fc4d136@v16g2000prc.googlegroups.com>,
Xah  <xahlee@gmail.com> wrote:
>David Combs wrote:
>> Xah-- question about the characters in your posts:
>>
>> If I or someone sees eg a url in one of your posts, and
>> wants to go to that url (because you've suggested doing that,
>> maybe), it's a little difficult to just cut-n-paste your string,
>> what with all the extra control or whatever they are characters
>> mixed in.
>>
>> What is that stuff, why is it there, and is it really necessary
>> for you to include it.
>
>The summation sign “∑” in my sig is my and my website signet.
>
>in the end of my sig, there's this character “☄” (unicode name
>“comet”). It is there so that it forces groups.google.com and Apple
...
...

Well, whatever.   Way over my head.


Anyway, *if* you really want *me* to go look at 
some suggested url, then please do it TWO ways:

. Your current scheme, which I cannot use.
. Plain ascii, 100% ready to be cut-n-pasted into a web-browser,
    with no edits needed.

Thanks,

David