Re: URL

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Practical question: Is there any possible way to get to

this club by typing something into the URL box?
Every
 time I want to get to it on a public computer,
here are
 my steps:
 1) Type in
"<a href=http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/quizbowl target=new>http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/quizbowl</a>"
 2) It waits a little while and says "Club is not
found."
 3) Click on the link to "search for clubs"
 4)
Type in "quizbowl"
 5) It brings up a list of
clubs, including quizbowl and,
 lately, "qbtuggers"
(??)
 6) Click on "quizbowl"
 7) It takes me to
"<a href=http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/quizbowl target=new>http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/quizbowl</a>"

 Now, I don't know anything about computer
science,
 but I've never seen another website with such a
simple
 address (no punctuation marks, or question marks,
or
 odd extensions, or any randomization or
indication that
 it's the response to a query, which this
website isn't
 anyway) that nonetheless could not be
typed in and had
 to be reached by linking. It works
fine as a bookmark
 too. Is there something else
one can type
in?
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Typing a forward slash after "clubs/quizbowl"
like


clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/quizbowl/

doesn't work. Typing without that forward
slash has
worked for me.


Jason Paik
WU Academic Team

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