l.d.,
Some e-newsletters, including some but not all about.com newsletters, have
"AOL-friendly" links such as your example
<A Http://fillinthe.spaces.com "This is a link" /A><Click Here>
Without this style, with a bare URL such as http://fillinthe.spaces.com, AOL
users could probably copy & paste but not directly click. I never used AOL.
Even for non-Arachne browsers such as Lynx, IBM Web Explorer and Netscape,
bare URLs are not directly clickable. Lynx users can't even copy & paste. But
on a Web page, bare URLs don't work, you need to use HTML. If you need
examples, just download the source to several Web pages, and you will see the
HTML that doesn't normally show in a browser window. F6 in Arachne will show
HTML source, or HTGET, wget, or any straight download will get the raw data
without rendering.
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