Clark, I have always done as you suggest with my Eudora/ iMac on sending URLs to folks, but now you have enlightened me on the necessity of adding (mailto:) to make EMail addresses hica--I mean clickable! Thanks.
Geoff > >Just type in the actual complete link. For instance if I want to reference a >web page I go to that web page on my browser and cut and paste the URL >using my >regular editing controls. > >First highlight the URL in the location section of your browser. Leave your >cursor in the highlighted section and do a Control c which copies to the >internal clipboard. > >Then switch to the email message you are composing and do a Control v which >pastes from the clipboard into your message. > >Example: Steam in the Garden web page URL is http://www.steamup.com/ > >When you see this message after it is sent the URL will be automatically >underlined in blue [dark red if you have already visited the site before] by >your email program. This works for other items such as email address in this >form. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Note that I did not add a period after the .net above. It would defeat the >automatic underlining. With mailto you can click on that and your email >program >will turn on and my email address will be in the TO box. Slick. You do >have to >use the colon symbol after mailto for this to work. > >If I want to reference a photo I just use the URL of the server that has the >photo. >Example: a photo of Dave Hottmann's Accucraft K27 was transferred by me to the >Earthlink server and my 10 MB drive space that I get with my email address. >Then I just reference that photo on their server as in >http://home.earthlink.net/~clarklord/_images/k27a.jpg You will see a blue >underlined link to that photo. When you click on it, up comes the photo. Any >misspelling will defeat everything. That's why I cut and paste the URL so I >don't mistype it. > >That's all there is to it. This message was produced and sent as a text >message >using Netscape v4.79 email program. I would guess that it also works in the >Microsoft products as well. > >Hope this helps and that the answer didn't insult your intelligence. > >Clark Lord >
