At 09:01 AM 12/17/01 -0700, Sandy Amdur wrote the following:

>Why didn't the referenced article below  show up as hyperlinked?  I
>dragged the
>icon that is on the left of the location bar into the message, then when
>prompted
>by Netscape, sent it in plain text and hypertext.  TIA
>
>Sandy Amdur wrote:
> > Couldn't help overhearing  :) your Visioneer problems.  I recently ran
> across
> > this article in one of the newletter subscriptions.  Hope it helps.
> >  20011212 Lockergnome Windows Daily

This list only accepts plain text. If in fact it was sent as multi-part
alternative (both text and HTML) then the HTML coding would have been
stripped with the demime program that processes e-mail sent to this list.

However, a check of the headers shows this to be a plain text message.
 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

An earlier posting by Marlene describes the demime program:
At 12:34 PM 3/23/01 -0500, Marlene Coldwell wrote the following:

>This is s test (formatted in HTML) to see if it makes it to the llist. Our
>wonderfull list hosts have implemented a new script, which strips all html
>formatting. In addition to reformatting HTML posts into
>plain text, it will also remove attachments, including graphics,
executables,
>v*ruses, and what have you

If the e-mail message was stripped you will see a header something like:
 > X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: from multipart/alternative by demime 0.98b

If you want an HTML address to be seen in this mailing list, then type as
http://...

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Gerry Boyd
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