lib/PublicInbox/View.pm | 4 +++-

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm
index 08d78945a49e65a882143b2c5086afd97633aaa6..bd0a27aa6b454db0c296d03b2e0793b473c7bbd2 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm
@@ -244,7 +244,9 @@ 	$pad x= ($len/2) if ($len > 0);
 	"$pad " . ascii_html($fn) . " $pad\n";
 }
 
-my $LINK_RE = qr!\b((?:ftp|https?|nntp)://[@\w\+\&\?\.\%\;/#=-]+)!;
+my $LINK_RE = qr!\b((?:ftp|https?|nntp)://
+		 [\@:\w\.-]+/
+		 ?[\@\w\+\&\?\.\%\;/#=-]*)!x;
 
 sub linkify {
 	# no newlines added here since it'd break the splitting we do