The link that John gave in the message of 18 Jan 06 - 07:04 AM

when clicked on, caused my PC to lock the window. It is only possible for me to unlock it by shutting down MSIE completely, and that is only possible by using the Vulcan Nerve pinch to get the task list and kill the offending process. Sometimes the PC locks up so well, that I can;t even get to the process control window.

As I said, leaving bits out of the full URL may cause problems, depending on whether the PC trying to view the link has been set up to automatically include some bits left out of the URL.

This does not apply to 'relative URLs", as as when linking to another thread inside mudcat

eg

http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=87713&messages=48

is the full one, and will take you to the last message number mentioned, but you only need

http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=87713

and really only

threadid=87713

for relative addressing, just in case the messages are ever moved from www.mudcat.org, as I seem to remember happening with the 'back door'.