It appears that links entered within a post, by the person posting, remain live in the printer friendly version, but all other links disappear. Apparently the threads I looked at didn't have as many links as I expected, so it looked like they'd all disappeared.

I'd have some concern about whether a new user here following a link to a printer friendly version of a thread would find it obvious how to get to the "normal" thread, since I had to look a bit for the link. It's obvious once you've found it the first time, but doesn't necessarily pop up at you on a first exposure to the pf versions. (i.e. "to thread" might not have a crystal clear meaning if you didn't get there from "the thread.")

And I note, Snuffy, that your link here went to the normal thread, not to I want to get deeper into Folk Music:Printer Friendly, which is what an innocent soul would see if the link is directly to the pf version. Just the fact that it "looks different" to someone unfamiliar with our usage could cause some minor confusion - (and a fair number of newbies appear to be minors (?)).

John