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(Also, can someone please remind me how to send live links?)
Brilliant!
May 08, 2014
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Oh, don't bother, it's been done for me!
Oh dear ;)
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If you mean a clickable link then you just prefix it with http:// and most readers will make it clickable.
eg:
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RFC1738 recommends wrapping it with e.g.
but most clients will spot http: and try and work out where the end of that URL is without the wrapper. Less commonly used URLs may not get picked up without the wrapper though - the wrapper should allow a URL to be identified which the client doesn't know about, such as perhaps , whereas probably no clients would identify the unwrapped sip: snipped-for-privacy@mytelco.com.
An earlier draft of the RFC recommended just the angle brackets without the URL: part, and this is still quite commonly used.
My Thunderbird 24.5.0 did :-)
and my Seamonkey 1.8!
Yes but as an email address!
Since, as you say, most clients will recognise it anyway, I recommend
*not* putting anything except space around it to make it easier for those using text-only or other non-URL aware clients to cut and paste more easily.-- Richard
Thanks for the suggestions, fellers, but it seems that it's done automatically when I click "Post"
No, it's done by the newsreader. All you're posting is plain text.
Tim
Yes.
(Also TBird)
Andy
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