Re: Period at the end of a link or not?

[Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>]

Whenever possible, I not only follow Rick's method, but also try to find 
some way for the link's text to be short. A long link that's forwarded 
through an e-mail system can easily be corrupted when some part of the 
e-mail software inserts a newline character.

Rick Stone wrote:
> Hi Sylvia
> 
> For what it's worth, I normally try and complete the sentence before the 
> link, as in something like this.
> 
> For more information, please consult the following link.
> http://www.somesite.com/somefolder/somepage.htm
> 
> Cheers... Rick :)
> 
> 
> SB wrote:
>> We are writing a "Getting Started Guide". There are a couple of sentences
>> with long links: i.e., to download XYZ, you can do it from here (of couse we
>> don't write here because it is a pdf and because we want the user to see the
>> path even if it is long).
>>
>> My colleague thinks it should have a period at the end of the link to make
>> it a sentence and to be grammatically correct. Is this truly a grammatical
>> sentence? Here is an example. Period or no period?
>>
>> *please go to our on line password request link **
>> http://www.xxxxxx.com/SupportAndServices/Request_Login*<http://www.xxxxxx.com/SupportAndServices/Request_Login>
>> * For your protection and ours, we cannot provide this information via
>> email.*
>>
>> Sometimes people copy and paste instead of clickng the link. So yes, it is
>> true, it is a PDF and not everybody has a way to copy it but I tend to think
>> that a period at the end of a path is an extra invitation to error.
>>
>> What is your opinion regarding the issue.
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