# this that and the other test

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**Created:** [July 18, 2001, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-that-and-the-other-test/72982 "2001-07-18T22:06:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Spyderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@Spyderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spyderman)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2001, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-that-and-the-other-test/72982/1 "2001-07-18T22:06:37Z")

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[sub]this[/sub][sup]that[/sup]and the other

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**Author:** ![Spyderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@Spyderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spyderman)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2001, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-that-and-the-other-test/72982/2 "2001-07-18T22:09:32Z")

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other

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**Author:** ![Spyderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@Spyderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spyderman)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2001, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-that-and-the-other-test/72982/3 "2001-07-18T22:10:45Z")

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am i linking wrong or is CNN banned from the SDMB?

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**Author:** ![Spyderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@Spyderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spyderman)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2001, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-that-and-the-other-test/72982/4 "2001-07-18T22:12:54Z")

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one

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**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2001, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-that-and-the-other-test/72982/5 "2001-07-18T22:24:44Z")

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You’re linking wrong. Your last link is this:

[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/www.yahoo.com](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/www.yahoo.com)

What you want is {url=“[http://www.yahoo.com](http://www.yahoo.com)”} one {/url}

Replace { } with .

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**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2001, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-that-and-the-other-test/72982/6 "2001-07-18T22:35:58Z")

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And to link to CNN, you use this code:

```auto

{url="www.cnn.com"}CNN{/url}

```

Just replace the curly brackets with square ones.

Zev Steinhardt

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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2001, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-that-and-the-other-test/72982/7 "2001-07-18T23:13:24Z")

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First, don’t always expect the very worst.

Secondly, we gotta do something about that user name. . . we already have an “August West.” Come talk to me about changing it as soon as possible, please.

your humble TubaDiva  
Administrator

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**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:** [July 19, 2001, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-that-and-the-other-test/72982/8 "2001-07-19T17:54:11Z")

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**zev** , I think that that’s exactly what he did, which is the cause of his problems. You’ve got to include the protocol in the URL, in this case, http, or it looks like a relative address, not an absolute one. Thus, the proper link would be  
[[sup][/sup]url=“[http://www.cnn.com](http://www.cnn.com)”]The Cable News Network[[sup][/sup]/url]  
which would turn into  
[The Cable News Network](http://www.cnn.com)

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**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2001, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-that-and-the-other-test/72982/9 "2001-07-19T18:01:35Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Chronos \*  
> \*\ ***zev** , I think that that’s exactly what he did, which is the cause of his problems. You’ve got to include the protocol in the URL, in this case, http, or it looks like a relative address, not an absolute one. Thus, the proper link would be  
> [[sup][/sup]url=“[http://www.cnn.com](http://www.cnn.com)”]The Cable News Network[[sup][/sup]/url]  
> which would turn into  
> [The Cable News Network](http://www.cnn.com) \*\*

Yeah, you’re right, **Chronos**. My goof.

Zev Steinhardt