Janet, I can click on it once and go right there. I have Microsoft Internet Explorer as my browser. I use the net a lot to look up things like Fava Bean recipes. Anything you want to know is out there, just hard to find sometimes. Terry ---------- > From: janet paterson <[log in to unmask]> > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: info on the wwweb-wwwinnebago / mini-survey on 'hyper-links'in e-mail programs > Date: Tuesday, May 18, 1999 8:57 AM > > hi all > > helen wrote me privately > and i didn't think she'd mind if i answered her publicly > with a few additional musings of my own... > > At 18:02 1999/05/16 EDT, you wrote: > >Dear Janet, > >I rarely use the web for info - don't have the time. Is it possible for > >you to once in awhile put the list instrucions on the list also. Last > >year when I went to the Forum I hand carried the instruction to access > >the list and had it printed for distribution at the Forum. I would really > >like to do that again. If this is not convenient please let me know. > >Thanks > >Helen > > dear helen > > certainly i could post the subscription instructions to the PIEnet list > no problemmo > > i'm curious about how many of us don't use the wwweb... > and why... > > helen, you have access to both > an e-mail software program and a wwweb browser software program > since they are combined in the aol 'package' ... > > i wonder how many of us have only an e-mail program and no wwweb browser? > > e.g. > if i type in the wwweb address of the PIEnet list subscription instructions > here: > <http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Village/6263/pienet/subs/index.html> > how many of us can 'read' it as a wwweb site address? > = a URL ? [nerdese for Universal Resource Locator] > = a hyper-link ? > = is it 'clickable' ? > > = can you double-click on it with your mouse and thus 'jump' directly to it ? > > or > > would you have to "copy and paste" the address > from your e-mail program to your wwweb browser program > before being able to access it? > > i use eudora lite as my e-mail program > and it recognizes every URL address as a hyper-link; > if i double-click on the URL with my mouse, > eudora starts up my netscape web browser automatically > > just curious, is all > > > janet > > who has just attached a mobile-mini-pig-pen to the wwwinnebago for porky > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > janet paterson 52 now 41 dx 37 onset [log in to unmask] > 613-256-8340 PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario K0A 1A0 Canada > a new voice <http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Village/6263/> > ------------------------------------------------------------