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No more asterisks and brackets now? - or not, afte

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Christine in Herts

Christine in Herts Report 19 Feb 2005 19:23

That's what I was originally trying to do when it got suppressed. I normally just put the asterisk in - can't remember now who suggested the idea - but I do know it only matters if the 'dot' is immediately followed by the letters C and O, whatever the word actually is - even if it's Cornwall or Colleague or Copperplate or... I still don't know why it threw a wobbly on the other thread, 'cos I had no trouble when I tried again further up this list. Christine

Deborah

Deborah Report 19 Feb 2005 19:18

Just a little helpful tip. It's only address that end in dot *(co) something So you can't post .*com or .*co.*uk without brackets or stars or something. Likewise you can post things that end .org. like www.familysearch.org or www.1901census.nationalarchives.gov.uk See, what I mean? Ridiculous carry on if you ask me, this is the only site I know that you can't type a full web address, without all this b*g*ring about!!!! Debbie

Seasons

Seasons Report 19 Feb 2005 18:48

Yes I would like to know too. Can't see it being a problem as everyone on here is helping each other and GC is successful because of it.

Unknown

Unknown Report 19 Feb 2005 18:02

Especially when they have a list of other sites on their own Genealogical resources pages? nell

Kim

Kim Report 19 Feb 2005 17:31

has any one established why they don't like it, after all other websites allow it why are they so fussy? Kim

Peter

Peter Report 19 Feb 2005 17:27

Could always try it this way www.multimap.=om.uk replace = for c

Abigail

Abigail Report 19 Feb 2005 17:15

Pardon Andrew? Abigail

Andrew

Andrew Report 19 Feb 2005 17:13

It's possible to put all web site addresses in a numerical form, such as http://212.58.226.50/ (BBC News) To do this... Start --> Programs --> Accessories --> Command Prompt then type in 'ping news.bbc(.)co(.)uk' (without the quotes and brackets) You'll see something like the output below. The web address in numbers is the one where the reply comes from...in this case 212.58.226.50 Of course this has the disadvantage that at some time the numbers change but the word based address does not. =================================== Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195] (C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp. C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>ping news.bbc(.)co(.)uk Pinging newswww.bbc.net.uk [212.58.226.50] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 212.58.226.50: bytes=32 time=50ms TTL=55 Reply from 212.58.226.50: bytes=32 time=40ms TTL=55 Reply from 212.58.226.50: bytes=32 time=40ms TTL=55 Reply from 212.58.226.50: bytes=32 time=50ms TTL=55 Ping statistics for 212.58.226.50: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 40ms, Maximum = 50ms, Average = 45ms C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>

Smiley

Smiley Report 19 Feb 2005 16:55

gov org & net are still unaffected. www.1901census.nationalarchives.gov.uk www.cwgc.org www.myfolks.net

Christine in Herts

Christine in Herts Report 19 Feb 2005 16:53

Curiouser and curiouser... End of panic, I guess. - I'd better update the title. Christine

Christine in Herts

Christine in Herts Report 19 Feb 2005 16:52

Weird! I had to make half a dozen attempts to get: http://ukbdm . c o m/ (remove redundant spaces) to work. When I did my usual thing of just inserting an asterisk between the dot and the next bit it suppressed everything from the asterisk to the right-hand bracket on the line below! I'll try again: http://ukbdm.*com (remove *) Christine

Peter

Peter Report 19 Feb 2005 16:52

I see one change you could do an org address befor with out * or () seem you can't now.

Anne

Anne Report 19 Feb 2005 16:46

Ha Ha, Andrew - yes even that one!!!

Peter

Peter Report 19 Feb 2005 16:46

Even if they stop the * () trick I have worked out yet another way to do it.

Andrew

Andrew Report 19 Feb 2005 16:45

interesting to see what is manipulated and what is not http://www.1901census.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/ http://www.familysearch.org/ http://www.1837online.com/ http://www.yorkshirebmd.org.uk/ Now, all the above (5 sites) repeated again but with brackets http://www(.)1901census(.)nationalarchives(.)gov(.)uk/ http://www(.)genesreunited(.)co(.)uk/ http://www(.)familysearch(.)org/ http://www(.)1837online(.)com/ http://www(.)yorkshirebmd(.)org(.)uk/ and again with www.1901census.nationalarchives.gov.uk www.genesreunited.co.uk www.familysearch.org www.1837online.com www.yorkshirebmd.org.uk

Anne

Anne Report 19 Feb 2005 16:44

Do you mean it no longer works? I'll try www.ukbdm*co*uk Anne Seems to work OK. What was the problem you saw? Anne

MrsBucketBouquet

MrsBucketBouquet Report 19 Feb 2005 16:42

testing testing testing.... http://www(.)picturesofengland(.)com/Warwickshire/

Christine in Herts

Christine in Herts Report 19 Feb 2005 16:39

I gather, from a recent attempt to post a useful URL, that GR has realised that we could get round their censorship by adding * or () round the dots when they preceded 'co' or 'com'? It really is rather tedious, and I still don't understand what the problem is. Christine