The problem seems to be that someone copy/pasted the text of a message, with a link, without actually getting the URL of the link. For example, the address of this thread is:
h t t p : / / forums.pelicanparts.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=145007
I stuck some spaces in there so the BBS software doesn't parse the URL. When the software creates the link, it truncates part of the middle of the link to make it shorter, like this:
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/showthread.php?threadid=145007
Not much help.
Tom