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* Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk>  on Mon, 15 May 2000
| Yep.  And there is a sane heuristic that cathes it, without generating
| zillions of false positives.  Words that start with "www." can be
| considered URL's.

That is a *very* bad assumption.  Not all web servers are called "www", and 
many web servers are also FTP servers.  Making assumptions about what a
non-URL FQDN might be is almost as bad as turning FQDNs into buttons.  I am 
not saying that your change is a bad thing, just that you should be sure of 
what you are doing before you make it.
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