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From: Pat Asher <>
Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] Correction of url on Please check my messages
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 20:59:54 -0400
In-Reply-To: <a2.3635805e.2bd95499@aol.com>

At 10:54 AM 4/24/2003, wrote:
>For some reason the url I included in the body of my message included some
>html code. I accessed the website and then did a copy and paste so thought
>it would be okay. Apparently it was okay when I pasted it below my name but
>not in the body. Does anyone know what might have caused this?
>
>Anyway, will try again and will list it within the body of this message and
>then again below my name. Hope this works.
>
><A
>HREF="http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nich/">http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nich/</A>;

It's an AOL quirk. AOL executes HTML appearing in email. That's why we
add a dot/period, or use standard brackets for HTML tags when we illustrate
code -- so you guys using AOL don't end up with an entire digest with
purple type on a dark red page <g>

<.body bgcolor="#800000" text="#666600">
or
[body bgcolor="#800000" text="#666600"]


Pat

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