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Now that Max and Jeff (AKA, Pene) have provided us with a built-in tool to easily create hyperlinks (AKA, blickies) I'm seeing many more URLs showing up in posts as non-active plain text. Why is this?

Please, people, the effort to create a blicky using the new tool is approximately the same as the effort we must expend to copy your text URL and paste it into a browser address box. By performing this effort one time you save everyone else the time and trouble to go through those same motions over and over again.

If your link is important enough to have value for others, it should be worth the very small effort to make it an active resource for them.
<rant off>

      - Mark