Tom Neff wrote,

| One annoying thing that DEMIME and Lynx-ing doesn't address is when people,
| even in otherwise plain text messages, can't resist saying
| 
|  I put up the picture of the gooney bird on <A HREF="mysite.com">my site</A>
| 
| instead of just writing the URL in plain text where smart mailers can pick
| it up, and dumb printers and message strippers can preserve it for readers
| to click or type in.

That's done to accommodate readers on AOL, whose mail client will not show
the URL as a clickable link otherwise, or so people say.


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