On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 08:55:46 -0400, "cybercat" >
wrote:
>
>"Zilbandy" > wrote in message
.. .
>> On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 09:59:15 +0200, Chatty Cathy
>> > wrote:
>>
>>>I had no trouble viewing this picture (or any of the others, for that
>>>matter), so your above remark puzzled me a bit.
>>>My newsreader allows me to click on the above link, and in turn that
>>>launches the pic in my browser, no problem.
>>
>> There is something "non standard" with the way he posts his Urls. They
>> do not show as a normal link for me, either. I've been on Usenet for
>> over 10 years and this is not a normal thing. He's doing something
>> odd.
>>
>
>And when aggressively stupid, obnoxious people do odd things, well, I call
>that "Open Season."

He's using "IMG Code for for Forums and Message Boards" instead of
"URL for Email and IM". That's all.

IMG Code:
URL: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2e2getv

I use an old version of Agent with Firefox set as my default browser.
Agent does not recognize [IMG] as a clickable link, so FF doesn't get
a chance to play with it. As a result of this thread, I pasted the
entire URL directly into FF. It did not ignore [IMG] and told me it
was not a valid URL, so Cathy's news reader must strip off the [IMG]
tags for her.

In any case, most of us post the URL when we use TinyPic. Both will
get you to the same place (immediately) if the OP remembers to trim
off extranious [IMG] code. http://i14.tinypic.com/2e2getv.jpg



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