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From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net>
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On 09/01/16 19:27, Chris Hill wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Sep 2016, Polytropon wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 1 Sep 2016 19:30:17 -0400 (EDT), Chris Hill wrote:
>
>>> I get that "encountered an error" too, but only if I leave the trailing
>>> '[1]' on the link. If I copy and paste the URL, it's fine.
>>> [...]
>>> For me the redirect works as stated (less the trailing '[3]' and the
>>> leading and trailing '/').
>>
>> I assume this is just a strange way of the MUA (or the author?)
>> to denote URLs. ;-)
>
> I assumed so too, but it seemed worth pointing out, in case anyone was 
> just hitting the link without looking closely.
>


.... which is what I did. w/o the brackets, it worked AOK.

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