naked URLs -- a little data (Re: The <word>.<word>.<word> rule)

[Karl Kleinpaste <karl@charcoal.com>]

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I just finished going back through the most recent 200 articles in
nnml:list.ding, in which I manually walked through the articles,
finding everything that was naked-URL-buttonized.  In cases where it
mattered, I included anything left of an `@' for sake of contextual
clarity.  There were 159 buttonized naked URLs in those 200 articles,
of which nearly 100 were mail addresses, generally (though not always)
in attribution lines.  Some of the erroneous buttonization is
particularly exciting: See the last element, as well as Jaap Henk's
signature URL (#27).

As far as I can see, naked URL highlighting was correct on only 7
distinct strings (out of a total of 49), for an error rate of 86%.

--karl


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     1	     22	Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE
     2	     14	zsh@cs.rochester.edu
     3	     14	ratinox@peorth.gweep.net
     4	      8	imap.akamai.com
     5	      7	abraham@dina.kvl.dk
     6	      6	fw@deneb.cygnus.argh.org
     7	      6	abcselect.tar.gz
     8	      5	vvv@vvv.vsu.ru
     9	      5	PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com
    10	      4	www.dict.org
    11	      4	sunsite.auc.dk
    12	      4	stromme@mi.uib.no
    13	      4	rlb@cs.utexas.edu
    14	      3	jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl
    15	      3	hoepman@cs.utwente.nl
    16	      3	halfdome.holdit.com
    17	      3	group.name.here
    18	      3	dodrt.dod.no
    19	      3	bmay@csse.monash.edu.au
    20	      3	aa0bt@aa0bt.ampr.org
    21	      2	mail.company.com
    22	      2	latte@uq.net.au
    23	      2	ke@gnu.franken.de
    24	      2	jas@pdc.kth.se
    25	      2	gnu.emacs.gnus
    26	      2	21.0.90
    27	      1	www.cs.utwente.nl/~hoepman
    28	      1	site.config.m4
    29	      1	sendmail-8.11.0.Beta1
    30	      1	palmieri@math.washington.edu
    31	      1	mail-source.el.old
    32	      1	mail-source.el.new
    33	      1	jwr@icm.edu.pl
    34	      1	i386-*-nt4.0.1381
    35	      1	ftp.gnus.org
    36	      1	foo@bar.org.au
    37	      1	foo.bar.tar.gz
    38	      1	foo.bar.com
    39	      1	flsc@hp.fciencias.unam.mx
    40	      1	every.second.dot
    41	      1	bruce+gnus@cenderis.demon.co.uk
    42	      1	bold.bold.bold
    43	      1	Peter.Weiss@germany.sun.com
    44	      1	Emacs/21.0.90
    45	      1	87n1m3rgyc.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org
    46	      1	5.0.2.34.XXX
    47	      1	21.2.b31
    48	      1	0.9.5a
    49	      1	/home/justin/News/agent/nnimap/imap.akamai.com/.imap/inbox