But it doesn't appear in the preview screen; just the live page.

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There's a lot of back-end processing and error checking that happens to URLs when a post is submitted. Those error checks and processing steps aren't done at the preview stage.

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The primary motivation for the link checker was to detect/prevent linking out to domains that had expired and now redirect to malicious sites. Over the time this forum has been around there's been hundreds of porn stars that have come and gone. Many of them had personal sites that they allowed the domain names to expire and malicious people snapped them up. We try to prevent linking out to bad neighborhoods. It hurts us in Google if we link out to sites that will harm your computer.

Edited by - Drew Black on 3/19/2020 6:54:36 AM

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During that period, I remember using Netscape Navigator at university library for journal articles, which had 10baseT Ethernet, but at apartment only had dialup. IIRC, broadband was out, but didn't have lot of market share where I was yet and knew many that had dialup then.

IIRC, a grad student I hung out with had dialup Juno at her apartment (it was free or next to nothing, but ads everywhere).

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[link deactivated:404 - Page not found]March 31 - Zaandam not allowed to dock in Florida[/url]

Here's the URL I posted - https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2020/03/31/zaandam-cruise-ship-still-has-no-guaranteed-port-its-sick-passengers-florida-officials-balk/

Thought it might help with investigating broken links. Or did I initially fat-finger the link when I posted?

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