OFF: The missing link

[Paul Mather]

On Fri, 23 Apr 1999 DASLUD at AOL.COM wrote:

=>In a message dated 4/23/99 7:25:22 PM, DASLUD at AOL.COM writes:
=>
=><<hmm...that's odd...this was the first time i sent out a link which didnt
=>come
=>back to me as a link; i wonder how many of you get these actual links, but
=>prior to  sending the prunes site, they came back as links.
=>let's try that again:<A
=>HREF="http://www.electricprunes.com">www.electricprunes.com
=>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
=>>>nope; wasnt a link this time either, goldurn it...did ANYONE get it as a
=>link?

I didn't get it as a link, per se, but my mail program (Pine) is
clever enough to convert it to one automagically.

It shouldn't actually be a link, since you are now sending e-mail
strictly as plain text, as per the list admin's instructions.  The "<A
HREF="link">Some text</A>" stuff is actually the <FNORD>HTML<FNORD>
markup needed to put a link into a document.  But, it's been rendered
into plain text, because that's how you've told your e-mail program to
send things.

I wouldn't sweat it.  If folk's e-mail programs can't auto-convert
links, they'll just cut-n-paste it from the e-mail message into the
"URL" line of their browser, anyway (or, heaven forbid, just type it
in).

If you want to apprise people on BOC-L of a neat URL ("WWW page"),
just type it in to the mail message.  No need to mess about with
getting Outlook Express (or whatever) trying to embed it as a link.

I hope this helps.

Cheers,

Paul.

e-mail: paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu

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