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On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 07:46:21PM +0000, J.D. Forinash wrote:
> because a) most more-modern MUAs, newsreaders, and web browsers "get it",
> and treat it as if it were a link even if it doesn't have the A tag,
> and b) if it's the only thing on the line, those of us who like our stone
> knives and bear skins (or are stuck with them) can quicky "cut" (three-clicks
> cuts a single line on most of the X servers I've played with) it to paste
> into our browser of necessity, and c) the HTML tag doesn't clutter up the
> screen for text mode people.
just a neat trick I found with netscape on X, and not on an MS platform -
if you have a link in your clipboard (you triple-clicked it or something),
just click your middle button on the background in a netscape window (not
on an image or link), and watch it go :) very very convenient!
FUT o-t.geek
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