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 == The good news ==
-The good news is that the Thunderbird Address Book importers do a fairly good job of importing the well-documented, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LDIF LDIF] format. There also exist a web-based PHP script to [http://labs.brotherli.ch/vcfconvert/ Convert vCards to LDIF Format]. I've dome some basic testing exporting vCards from the OS X Address Book, converting them to LDIF, then importing them into Thunderbird, and have not run into any serious problems, though [http://qwiki.qualcomm.com/eudora/Data_Loss_Converting_Address_Book_Data some data are lost along the way.] Thunderbird can also import from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values CSV] format, though this process is not nearly as easy (from the user perspective) as importing from LDIF.
+The good news is that the Thunderbird Address Book importers do a fairly good job of importing the well-documented, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LDAP_Data_Interchange_Format LDIF format]. There also exist a Web-based PHP script to [http://labs.brotherli.ch/vcfconvert/ convert vCards to LDIF format]. I've dome some basic testing exporting vCards from the OS X Address Book, converting them to LDIF, then importing them into Thunderbird, and have not run into any serious problems, though [http://qwiki.qualcomm.com/eudora/Data_Loss_Converting_Address_Book_Data some data are lost along the way.] Thunderbird can also import from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values CSV] format, though this process is not nearly as easy (from the user perspective) as importing from LDIF.
 == External links ==
 Some links to documentation or information about the Mork format:
-* [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=241438 The Bugzilla Bug], from which some of the above comments are taken.
+* [http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=241438 The Bugzilla Bug], from which some of the above comments are taken.
-* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071229150643/http://bjf.id.au/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/software/20050429-mork.html The Hard Way], from which other comments above are taken. ''(archived)''
+* [http://web.archive.org/web/20071229150643/http://bjf.id.au/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/software/20050429-mork.html The Hard Way], from which other comments above are taken. ''(archived)''
-* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080201004840/http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/arch/mork/primer.txt A brief primer] on the Mork text format. ''(archived)''
+* [http://web.archive.org/web/20080201004840/http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/arch/mork/primer.txt A brief primer] on the Mork text format. ''(archived)''
 * The [http://vcard.mozdev.org/ Mozilla vCard Project], stalled since 2005.
 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mork_%28file_format%29 Wikipedia article on Mork]