People can already post magnet links, only they will take up so much space and look ugly. This is just a request to allow them to be formatted properly.

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http links can lead to spam or other malware, so that is not a good reason to not format magnets properly.

Arne is right--just don't auto add http to magnets .

magnets are a good way to test for gnutella connectivity on these forums.