strangely the trick doesnt seem to work on netscrape 7 either Paul Stamsen wrote: > I have just been given to understand the microsoft e-mailer does not > observe this convention. Pity. > > > At 8:02 +0000, 2/17/03, out of the ether, it was observed: > >> I think your links are ok but in OE they take two lines. The first >> half of >> the link (the top line) is a hyperlink but the second half of the >> link (the >> second line) is in ordinary text which a browser will not recognise. >> >> In my OE your links look like this >> >> http://www.applefritter.com/cgi-bin/YaBB/ >> YaBB.pl?board=powercc;action=display;num=1044807145 > > > As a reminder, > > If you remember to add < and > both before and after the URL, it will > hang together, thus: > <http://www.applefritter.com/cgi-bin/YaBB/ > YaBB.pl?board=powercc;action=display;num=1044807145> > regardless of the line length set by your e-mailer and regardless of > which e-mailer you use. > > It's just a nagging detail, but it does help everyone, especially the > newbies (and the oldies, whose memory is slipping) who ask such questions.
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