Though why ECF insists on stripping out half my URLs so they don't work, even when I use the correct UBB code, no one knows. Ugh.
I think there is a master list of permitted and banned URLs, because I just tested a small URL from a non-related website and ECF did the same to it as it did to yours -- with some, but not all of them. I put in my work URL and it accepted it. I put in the one for ....... dot com and it did the "......" thing to it, like it did with yours above.
EDIT: Very interesting! In the place where you see ....... before the words dot com, it did the same as it did when I typed in the whole URL!! It didn't even allow the word, and it's a totally non-offensive word and a useful website! Tiny URL?
I usually don't have that problem. I've used
this method, which is to highlight the link word(s) and then click the "link" icon above the text to enter the full URL.
And I've used this method:
http://e-cigarette-forum.com with success, with or without the http:// and they work fine too.
Then there's the method of highlighting a URL from the Address box in another browser window and pasting it here:
Cignot your Midwest Electronic Cigarette store.
Sometimes that last method will print the page title of the webpage, and sometimes the whole URL... but only if it's not on the banned list, I guess.