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Subject:Re: [NVC] Signature tutorial: Making a clickable URL
From:Tobin Copley
Date:Wed, 26 May 2004 13:07:37 -0700

Erm, but if you're running a Mac, why in the gods' names would you run
*Outlook*?  Isn't that like taking your vanagon and de-tuning and
softening the suspension so that it steers and rides just like a big
American van conversion boat?

;-)

T.
(Waiting to hear from enraged people on the list who have done
precisely that...)

On May 26, 2004, at 10:25 AM, don spence wrote:

> Sorry Gnarlie
> Not true re Macintosh, at least in Outlook Express for Mac under OS 10.
> Both "links" work as typed.  As does WWW.roadhaus.com and
> www.roadhaus.com.
> On Wednesday, May 26, 2004, at 08:06  AM, Automatic digest processor
> wrote:
>
>> This is not even a web address:
>> WWW.RoadHaus.com
>>
>> but this is:
>> http://RoadHaus.com/
>>
>> If you put a URL in your signature pleeeeze! Make it clickable in ALL
>> email
>> applications by pasting an  http:// prefix to the domain.
>> Since it is not standards compliant, the 'www' prefix will not work in
>> Mac
>> or Linux but only in Microsoft's Outlook Express for Windows.
>>
>> In OE Win, the clickability is set by the '.com' suffix so any format
>> will
>> work, but all we see is plain text. You'll get more hits if it's
>> clickable.
>

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