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Subject:Re: [NVC] Signature tutorial: Making a clickable URL
From:Gnarlodious
Date:Wed, 26 May 2004 15:41:10 -0600

I thought it was a joke and didn't plan on responding, but there wasn't any
Outlook for OSX.

So either Don Spence is running OS 9 or tossing us a red herring.

-- Gnarlie

Entity Tobin Copley spoke thus:

> 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.
>>