# link **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 22, 2003, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link/196938 "2003-08-22T15:37:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Earl\_of\_Sandwhich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/91b2a8/32.png) [@Earl\_of\_Sandwhich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_of_Sandwhich)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link/196938/1 "2003-08-22T15:37:04Z")
link:http://www.spr.org/en/news/2003/0705.html ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_of\_Sandwhich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/91b2a8/32.png) [@Earl\_of\_Sandwhich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_of_Sandwhich)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link/196938/2 "2003-08-22T15:48:10Z")
link:http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_of\_Sandwhich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/91b2a8/32.png) [@Earl\_of\_Sandwhich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_of_Sandwhich)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link/196938/3 "2003-08-22T16:40:43Z")
http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=7785 ---
**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link/196938/4 "2003-08-23T07:33:20Z")
[**United Auto Workers Ask GM and Chrysler to Cover Elective Abortions**](http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp) ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_of\_Sandwhich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/91b2a8/32.png) [@Earl\_of\_Sandwhich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_of_Sandwhich)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link/196938/5 "2003-08-23T16:11:50Z")
link:http://www.spr.org/en/news/2003/0705.html ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_of\_Sandwhich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/91b2a8/32.png) [@Earl\_of\_Sandwhich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_of_Sandwhich)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link/196938/6 "2003-08-24T00:57:36Z")
link:http://www.morningglorypress.com/pages/pptprgpv.html ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link/196938/7 "2003-08-24T02:02:00Z")
?? **Earl** , please explain why you are posting all these links? You’re obviously not testing your ability to make links, and it’s a goddam headache for Moderators to check each one of 'em. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_of\_Sandwhich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/91b2a8/32.png) [@Earl\_of\_Sandwhich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_of_Sandwhich)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link/196938/8 "2003-08-24T17:14:24Z")
I’m sorry. Sometimes my links do not work, and I prefer to test them here first rather than embarass myself by posting a link that does not work. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link/196938/9 "2003-08-24T17:33:30Z")
When you post with a link use preview and test the link from the previewed post. ---
**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:** [August 24, 2003, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link/196938/10 "2003-08-24T17:38:38Z")
You know, you can also test them in preview, where you won’t be cluttering up a thread, and it also has the advantage that you only have to put in the link once (hence, no worries about accidentally doing it differently in the test and in the real thing). ---
**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link/196938/11 "2003-08-24T22:57:55Z")
A completely new forum could be set up to test links, a la **Earl**. ☹ [ul][sup]My earlier post was showing a different way of displaying a link. I thought perhaps that was what **Earl** was attempting to do.[/sup][/ul]