On Sun, 29 May 2011 13:22:34 -0400, Anton Sherwood <bronto@...>
wrote:

> splat = asterisk.

Thanks! I had assumed that, and changed my mind.

> Eh? I've never noticed any trouble with Schneier's links. Sampling my
> archives back to 2005, I see that he consistently either puts the link
> on a separate line or wraps it in <>.

It might be a bug in Opera's e-mail, which is a love/hate part of the
browser (also a love/hate entity, itself).
He shortens longer links in his monthly newsletter, and formats them (as I
see them!) as "...htmlor http://shortlink.com" (so to speak). It's that
trailing "or", without any intervening character, that has confused Opera.
I haven't read him for a while, and the fairly-recent version of Opera
that I'm using seems to act better.

Thanks much!

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