The first few months I tried to post using clickies, I saved a copy of the code, like Joe Offer posted above, in big, colorful type, so I could just substitute MY content...then one day, it dawned on me that I saw the pattern! Then, by frequenting a group where helper programs were discussed, I got myself several of those to do the stuff that went beyond the plain 'a href=' stuff.

Now I do links easily, but don't even try to 'learn' the fancy stuff... I just let a pre-written program do it for me.

(and olddude said it perfectly...Mudcat was written before those automated forums existed. Be glad, MtheGM, that you weren't trying this when we still had to do manual line breaks! (note the checked box below) The first clones were constantly having to manually put in lyrics line breaks.)