NavList:

I received this information which I copied from my email reader and am pasting it here::

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"> Now I am getting clickable links with Firefox on the recent messages
> leading you to believe that I made another, inadvertent change to my
> Firefox so I decided to try another test. If you are correct I should be
> able to go back to old posts where I didn't get clilckable links and
> they should now be clickable. Guess what, they aren't.

It happens because the Web site does not always surround URLs with the
HTML that makes them clickable.

On this page they are, because each one is contained in an HTML "anchor"
element.
http://www.fer3.com/arc/m2.aspx?i=114236

But on this page the URL is not contained in an anchor. It's simply
treated as ordinary text, and so is not clickable.
http://www.fer3.com/arc/m2.aspx?i=114235

Maybe the way the original message was submitted (Web vs. email, HTML
vs. plain text) makes a difference?

Apparently some browsers recognize an URL and make it clickable
regardless, but both IE and Firefox leave that decision in the hands of
the Web site designer."

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To test this I am pasting in a URL to the posting directly on the website using Firefox:

http://www.usno.navy.mil/USNO/astronomical-applications/data-services/cel-nav-data

Now I am going to type in the same URL:

http://www.usno.navy.mil/USNO/astronomical-appliations/data-services/cel-nav-data

I will also send the same links from my email programs.

gl

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