On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 at 10:35:50, Phoebus Dokos wrote: (ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
> >On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 14:28:31 -0000, Dilwyn Jones ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> OK, let's try again, acrefully type in twice as described, with >> opening and closing <URL: and > and no space between : and http >> >> URL:http//homepages.tesco.net/dilwyn.jones/software/freeware/freeware. >> html> >> >> URL:http://homepages.tesco.net/dilwyn.jones/software/freeware/freeware >> .html> >> >> The reason why is simple: as you type in the url itself and > after >> <URL: it removes the opening < from before URL. Any idea why? Quite >> simply, <URL: cannot seem to work as described for Lookout which is >> probably what most of us would be using. >> >> As you'll see, the closing > then becomes part of the URL! >> > > >Hi Dilwyn, >I tried many ways of dealing with that but it seems that the ONLY way >that your addresses won't be cut off is if that you write HTML >emails... That sentence doesn't make sense. Did you mean to say that Dilwyn should send text only emails? html emails will treat '<' as the start of a tag surely. -- QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:252/67) +44(0)1442-828255 tony@<surname>.co.uk http://www.firshman.co.uk Voice: +44(0)1442-828254 Fax: +44(0)1442-828255 TF Services, 29 Longfield Road, TRING, Herts, HP23 4DG
