# Just a test - ignore **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 17, 2001, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-test-ignore/82274 "2001-09-17T23:12:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sycorax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@Sycorax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sycorax)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2001, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-test-ignore/82274/1 "2001-09-17T23:12:57Z")
[http://straightdope.com](http://straightdope.com) ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Call\_Me\_Tech-Mex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5a626/32.png) [@Just\_Call\_Me\_Tech-Mex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Call_Me_Tech-Mex)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-test-ignore/82274/2 "2001-09-18T02:16:28Z")
[http://lucky.guess.Sycorax](http://lucky.guess.Sycorax) ---
**Author:** ![Sycorax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@Sycorax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sycorax)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-test-ignore/82274/3 "2001-09-18T02:33:19Z")
Hmmm…my browser couldn’t locate that server, Tech-Mex – yeah,I confess - I clicked on it! (I’m not blonde for nothing.) Lucky guess? Well that’s what you have to do sometimes on the SDMB. Putting a link in a post used to be complicated business, but I wanted to post in another forum and put in a link, so today did a search in ATMB and it appeared that now you can just copy and paste the URL - so that’s what I was testing. I still don’t understand why SDMB admin. doesn’t put it in FAQ. ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-test-ignore/82274/4 "2001-09-18T14:31:07Z")
test!! Move along!! ---
**Author:** ![SeamusToo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e0b2c6/32.png) [@SeamusToo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeamusToo)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-test-ignore/82274/5 "2001-09-18T18:01:58Z")
Another test by a virgin poster. Have the decency to avert your eyes and pass on. ---
**Author:** ![Sycorax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@Sycorax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sycorax)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-test-ignore/82274/6 "2001-09-18T23:09:57Z")
A virgin poster??? Excu-u-u-se me! I’ve been a poster for over two years…but I have a life and don’t spend every waking moment here (like some people) 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2001, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-test-ignore/82274/7 "2001-09-19T19:03:31Z")
Just testing a possible sig. If anyone’s still around, care to toss in your 2 cents? “I appeal to you again to constantly bear in mind that with you, and not with politicians, not with presidents, not with office-seekers, but with you, is the question, ‘Shall the Union and shall the liberties of this country be preserved to the latest generation?’” - A. Lincoln “An now, beware of rashness. Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward, and give us victories.” - A. Lincoln “The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise - with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.” - A. Lincoln Now, I’m not going to put all three in my sig. I was thinking two of them, but I want to see them up first before I make my decision. Currently, I’m leaning towards #3. ---
**Author:** ![Sycorax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@Sycorax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sycorax)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2001, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-test-ignore/82274/8 "2001-09-19T23:40:50Z")
I like #3 because it’s more poetic and subtle, but it’s also too long; I’d have to go for #2 because it’s concise and makes the point. ---
**Author:** ![atypicalcarl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@atypicalcarl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atypicalcarl)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-test-ignore/82274/9 "2001-09-20T01:34:24Z")
I like #3 also. Perhaps it would be short enough if you just used the first sentence? ---
**Author:** ![CnoteChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@CnoteChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CnoteChris)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-test-ignore/82274/10 "2001-09-20T02:25:20Z")
test La la la la la… ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-test-ignore/82274/11 "2001-09-20T14:47:40Z")
Actually, I think the first sentence is repetitive. Let’s see it without. “The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise - with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.” - A. Lincoln How 'bout that? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-test-ignore/82274/12 "2001-09-20T20:38:13Z")
The auto-link thing has always been here, ever since before the Great Switchover when we started using vBulletin. It does have a tendancy, though, to screw up on complicated URLs like you’d see for a search results page.