And I think the clients do that at READ time. So it will
vary by reader client. If you look at the mail source it will
just be plain text. For example, I tried:

Testing http://google.com as a link with http.

And google.com without the http prefix.

Finally, www.google.com just to compare.

and when I read the message with Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 the
first and third of the three displayed as a link but not
the middle one. So apparently Thunderbird (at least) looks
for http:// and www. as triggers...  ;-)  marty

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> Partially.  If they send HTML formatted email, you should get clickable
> links.  Most mail clients will also make a link out of anything that looks
> like a link such as http://google.com  I typed that address by hand, and I
> am sending messsages to LSTSRV-L as plain text.  Did it come trough as a
> link?
>
> Every once in a while, I get URLs that are not converted to link, but I
> have not found a cause for that.  I believe it has something to do with how
> the message was created, or encoded for transmission.
>
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>
> William Brown
> Web Development & Messaging Services
> Technology Services, WNYRIC, Erie 1 BOCES
>
>
> Steve wrote on 09/17/2009 08:49:51 AM:
>
>> Good morning all. I got this question from a listowner. I do not know the
>> answer. Does his assumption make sense?
>> Thanks.
>> A subscriber on vadcfll-l asked me why some messages have clickable
>> hyperlinks and some messages have plain text URLs. I think the difference
> is
>> whether the sender's client sends it as HTML or text.
>> That's what I wanted to test. Is my understanding correct?
>
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