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I cannot type in Co Durham....

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Lindsey

Lindsey Report 26 Jun 2006 20:44

Does anyone know why words beginning with Co do not come out on the threads. I was trying to put in Co Durham and it was just left out.

An Olde Crone

An Olde Crone Report 26 Jun 2006 20:45

Erm - reading between the lines, Genes will not let you type any word which has the letters c*o*m in them! They dont want to give free advertisements to other sites. OC

Jess Bow Bag

Jess Bow Bag Report 26 Jun 2006 20:46

GR will not let you post what they think is a web sire address/e-mail address so you'll sometimes see people put www(.) whatever (.) com copy and paste it, but remove the brackets

Lindsey

Lindsey Report 26 Jun 2006 20:50

Thanks very much for the replies. I understand now and I always wondered why people put brackets round full stops.

Judith

Judith Report 26 Jun 2006 20:51

They don't let you type words beginning with (co) after a . Its meant to prevent website addresses being posted but if you forget to put a space after a full stop you can get some bizarre results in ordinary text as well. I had to put in the brackets as they also dont allow (co) and (com) on their own.

Lindsey

Lindsey Report 26 Jun 2006 20:52

lol. I have just realised it didn't come out on my question either.

Christine in Herts

Christine in Herts Report 26 Jun 2006 21:00

That means you need to put something in for .*Cornwall and .*Colorado as well as .*co and .*com, but you don't have to worry about .net, .org, .gov and so on. Christine