# Testing

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing/68596>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [June 12, 2001, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing/68596 "2001-06-12T21:22:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![barbitu8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@barbitu8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/barbitu8)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2001, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing/68596/1 "2001-06-12T21:22:09Z")

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I’ve not been able to substitute URLs lately, so I must be doing something wrong. Let me practice [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/newthread.php?action=newthread&forumid=2)

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**Author:** ![barbitu8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@barbitu8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/barbitu8)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2001, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing/68596/2 "2001-06-12T21:27:28Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by barbitu8 \*  
> \*\*I’ve not been able to substitute URLs lately, so I must be doing something wrong. Let me practice [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/newthread.php?action=newthread&forumid=2) \*\*

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**Author:** ![EvilGhandi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@EvilGhandi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilGhandi)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2001, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing/68596/3 "2001-06-13T09:00:58Z")

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**Author:** ![virtee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/dbc845/32.png) [@virtee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/virtee)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2001, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing/68596/4 "2001-06-13T20:42:50Z")

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> [@](#):
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> I’ve not been able to substitute URLs lately, so I must be doing something wrong.

A that concludes my test.

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**Author:** ![Louie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c68b51/32.png) [@Louie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Louie)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2001, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing/68596/5 "2001-06-13T22:42:51Z")

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hmm…

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**Author:** ![barbitu8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@barbitu8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/barbitu8)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2001, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing/68596/6 "2001-06-14T01:00:27Z")

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For want of a set of quotation marks, a substitute url was lost. I never expected any postings to this thread, other than my own after I found my error. Now I see all these weird postings and can’t make heads or tails of them.