Hot Links - Again!

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Hot Links - Again!

I'm finding all this pasting-in of links terribly tedious. So I am going to make another attempt to explain to everybody how to do the nice simple hot links with story titles turning red and becoming clickable.
Now listen carefully, I will say this only once. Suppose for the sake of argument that you have discovered some exciting new story somewhere and you want to tell us all how to get to it. The piece in question we will say is called "REMINDER OF A PAST" by Alp and the page is at:

http://www.abctales.com/abcplex/viewstory.cgi?s=25956

Now of course if you put that in your post we can all go to the page by pasting that string of symbols into our browsers and hitting "return". But a much more elegant way of getting us there is to tell us to visit REMINDER OF A PAST by Alp. How is it done? Simple. In your "post" form type the following:

&lta href=&quothttp://www.abctales.com/abcplex/viewstory.cgi?s=25956&quot&gtREMINDER OF A PAST&lt/a&gt

It can become part of a sentence, thus:

Why don't you go and have a look at Alp's great new poem &lta href=&quothttp://www.abctales.com/abcplex/viewstory.cgi?s=25956&quot&gtREMINDER OF A PAST&lt/a&gt?

Okay, is that clear? It isn't really magic and doesn't involve the burrying of anything at the crossroadds when the moon is full. Notice that I haven't even used one of my own stories as an example, this is a pure selfless public service broadcast. Of course you CAN find one of my stories HERE if you really want to read one.

cissy_aeon
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Thanks Sirat. A timely reminder. Unfortunately, you can still see me at the roadside with a broken down car being nauseatingly ignorant of any form of mechanics whatsoever. I need your head under my hood, so to speak. And possibly a new brain. Love, Cissy x
cissy_aeon
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Problem solved, thanks to a kindly, passing Bryan. I shall now retire to seclusion and try to regain both my dignity and my obviously defective eyesight.
Sissy_anon
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god, html turns me on so! html> background body onunload="alert('# you may have been hotlinked by Sirat but now you have been moisturised by sissy_anon ... mwah!')"
Sissy_anon
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ah well. bollox.
Sissy_anon
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ok. sorry about the typo's. one last try. background body onunload="alert('# you may have been hotlinked by Sirat but now you have been moisturised by sissy_anon ... mwah!')"
cissy_aeon
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And your point is ?
Sissy_anon
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there is no point, cissy. it was meant as a laugh but either my java is screwed up or it has been thwarted by the abc controllers please keep writing.
cissy_aeon
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Oh, you're such a scamp! (Etc.) I freely admit my laughable ignorance of even the simplest internet function, as well as my painfully transparent attempt to cover for it by ham-fisted examples of coquesttishness. There. I am Found Out. Officially. What should I do next ?
cissy_aeon
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Spell coquettishness correctly, for a start.
Nancy
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Sirat forgive us technologically ignorant and inferior beings... we grovel at your feet...
sirat
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Oh dear. What have I started here?? I think only some html tags are accepted by this system. I also came a cropper when I tried to change background colour, font etc. It will accept images though. Here, have a cherry each and sit back and relax.
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