There's this pedant on some mailing lists I'm subscribed to who always puts
the final . at the end of hostnames, including in URLs.  Here's an example:

<URL:http://homepages.tesco.net./~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/verisign-internet-coup.html#Resistance>

(Technically this is correct, but only serious pedants actually write urls
like that.)

The upshot is that only "http://homepages.tesco.net" is clickable.


I don't know how reasonable it is to work around stupidity like that.