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Good question, Bernard. I guess that if would cut download time (but by a very small amount) if our menus could generate internal links, but they don't. Many of the permanent links you'll find ARE internal, but not the ones that are automatically generated. Maybe Pene can tell us why that happens.

If you're on our Loki server, ColdFusion will generate a new Forum Home menu of Loki links each time you refresh the Forum Home page. If you're on Ragtime, the Forum Home will refresh with Ragtime links. If you can refresh the page, it means that you must be on a working server - and the links on the Forum Menu will most probably work. If you are on Ragtime and post a link that points only to Ragtime, somebody who clicks the link tomorrow may end up in a dead end if Ragtime is down.

There is one exception - if you are linking to Mudcat from the Help Forum, you have to use the entire URL, with http and everything. The Help Forum operates independently, so it's less likely to go down when the rest of Mudcat is down. If you're posting a Help Forum that you might want somebody to use next week, it's best to use links that start with http://www.mudcat.org. If you're telling us about a problem, there's no need to make a clickable link for us - just give us the URL (address) of the problem, and we'll fix it.

-Joe Offer-