"Gerald E. Boyd" wrote: > > 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://... > Or, in Netscape, right click the Location bar, select "Copy". Compose your message and Ctrl-V to "paste" the link. It won't show up as a hyperlink in your message composition window, but it will be clickable to those that read it.
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