In many of the recent news reader posts, an error in the forum software's template handling has caused a spurious "http//" to be added to the front of some link address. This only affects the full URL's at the bottom of the posts; the "Continue reading..." links immediately above are syntactically correct. So for now, just use the "Continue reading..." links. I've kludged the template to get around the problem, but I still need to patch 200+ bad links as time permits.