[575] in IS Home Pages
Re: Telephone Support Services Web Pages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kris Nyzio)
Tue May 11 07:57:16 1999
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Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 07:56:36 -0400
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From: Kris Nyzio <knyzio@MIT.EDU>
Cc: hallisey@mit.edu
Hi everyone,
The mystery appears to be solved, please see Reid's email below. He double
clicked on the url from within Joanne's email and that is how he received
the error:
>>>>They cover a lot of information that may be helpful to you. Here is
>>>>a good place to start http://web.mit.edu/is/tel/telsupport.html.
Kris
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>Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 15:45:29 -0400
>To: Kris Nyzio <knyzio@mit.edu>
>From: "Reid M. Pinchback" <reidmp@MIT.EDU>
>Subject: Re: Telephone Support Services Web Pages
>
>At 02:59 PM 5/10/99 -0400, you wrote:
>>Hi Reid,
>>Joanne Hallisey forwarded your comments to our team (IS Home Pages Team).
>>We can't seem to duplicate the error that you are receiving. Could you
>>please try accessing the page again and letting me know if you are still
>>getting the error?
>>If so, what platform, os etc. are you using?
>>Thanks in advance for your assistance,
>>Kris Nyzio
>
>I figured it out. It is a Eudora 2.2 thing. When somebody writes
>email and places a period at the end of a URL (to indicate the
>end of the sentence), Eudora leaves that period on the end of
>the URL when you click on it to view the web page. That means
>the server is being asked to give you the file:
>
> foo.html.
>
>not
>
> foo.html
>
>and the error message results.
>
>====================================================
>= Reid M. Pinchback =
>= I/T Delivery, MIT =
>= =
>= Email: reidmp@mit.edu =
>= URL: http://mit.edu/reidmp/www/home.html =
>= =
>= Respect your own privacy; boycott Pentium III =
>====================================================
>
