Some nasty DOS Luddite soundly criticized me a while back for posting links instead of displaying the URL as text. It kind of hurt my feelings, since I thought I was doing a favor by making it easy for people to jump to other sites. If I put the link in once, then a hundred people can avoid cut-and-pasting to get to the other site - and they just might be more likely to go to the other site.
People who want the actual URL can get it with a single mouse-click, or they can save the page as HTML if they want to view it offline. I suppose we could paste the URL in a second time as the reference word for the link, but that makes the text harder to read. I kind of like to see how many novel ways I can say click here.
So I, for one, don't see any reason for a rule. Who comes up with all these suggestions for rules, andyhow? Is it the same people who have a compulsion to post things like the "Clean as you go" signs the U.S. Army used to have above urinals? I think that our elegant anarchy is one of the many wonderful things about Mudcat. Let's not spoil it with rules, eh?
I hope you don't mind my teasing a bit, Mick.
-Joe Offer-