The duplicate URL is because your email client has been programmed to allow a "simple" title for a complicated link that is supposed to be hidden. This may be a result of the HTML features of your email client. It automatically creates both a viewable "title" and a hidden portion of the same URL. For example, my email client is Eudora, and it allows me to create a link title like this - <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~valorie/Alsace-Lorraine-L.htm>A-L pages with the URL for Valorie's resource pages http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~valorie/Alsace-Lorraine-L.htm that is supposed to be hidden. This probably worked correctly in the direct mail I sent to you, but the mail list software will probably also show the hidden link, since RootsWeb mail lists will not accept HTML text. To eliminate this duplicate link in Eudora (Your email client may require a different edit sequence.) I usually "select" (highlight) that part of the message that contains the link and then hit Alt-E (=Edit menu), Alt-X (=revert), and Alt-E (=remove edit menu) to eliminate the duplicate (hidden) entries. At 02:00 AM 2/14/2008, you wrote: >From: "Rikard Hill" <rikrikardo1@centurytel.net> >Subject: Re: [A-L] Duplicate web address >To: <alsace-lorraine@rootsweb.com> > >Janice, > >I believe it happens when a person types in an abbreviation of the >complete URL address to a web site (i.e., leaving off the http://). The >system is smart enough to recognize this and tries to correct for it. >Unfortunately the software designer who wrote this code didn't include a >space between the incorrect and correct addresses (there is probably a >good reason for this - possibly to force us to learn to type it >properly), leaving the two linked. > >Rikard > >-----Original Message----- >From: alsace-lorraine-bounces@rootsweb.com >[mailto:alsace-lorraine-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of JANICE GRAEF >Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 10:04 PM >To: alsace-lorraine >Subject: [A-L] Duplicate web address > >Can someone explain why our links to websites often come up as >duplicated back to back? I just sent one out for Trader Joe's and it >showed up as a back-back link. > >It is frustrating when you send a link to the group and it doesn't work >correctly. > >Feedback appreciated, > >Janice