Links in posts showing up as HTML

On some of my posts, such as http://priuschat.com/index.php?act=ST&...=36343&st=0, the links I pasted in using the editor, show up as the url rather than a link to the highlighted word. Other times, the link facility works.

What is going on?

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Doc Willie @ Jul 23 2007, 07:37 PM) [snapback]483822[/snapback]</div>

. . .

Speculation: The URL in question has a space in the name. Maybe the Editor does not like this.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Doc Willie @ Aug 3 2007, 06:56 PM) [snapback]490198[/snapback]</div>

That was it! Replacing the space with an underscore made the link behave properly.

Thanks for leaving me to learn this on my own.

In general, try to simplify in-site post links down as short as
possible. Take out the session IDs and extra trash, definitely
don't have spaces or substitute %20, and you can always go re-edit
a message and check for the URL tags. Generally, a reference to
/index.html?showtopic=NNNNN&st=offset will be able to zero right in
on a particular post, and still show the thread surrounding it.
You can either just type it in and it will show up as a link as is,
or hide it behind other word.
.
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