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Karl Kleinpaste <karl@charcoal.com> writes:

[...]

> The fact remains that naked URL buttonization has a huge false
> positive rate, and a lot of us are getting rather tired of it.  It
> seems peculiar indeed that an objectively erroneous behavior should
> be retained as the default.

I agree.  However, someone else suggested a workable solution: change
the face that's used so that it's only bold (or whatever) when the
mouse is over it.  That way people can get the convenience of clicking
on 0.9.5a (if they really think that's a hostname) without the visual
distractions.