Sorry, wasn't talking about the vital search links but the others at the end of your message going to various help pages. Original Message: ----------------- From: Tim Kemp [email protected] Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:34:35 -0500 To: [email protected], [email protected] Subject: Re: [VAROOTS] RESEARCH HINTS! Depending on the state you are looking for there are several things you can try. First, the http:// was left off of all of the URL's. Some web browsers will automatically add it. Some will not. You should always put complete URL's including the http:// when you give links. This may or may not be a PART or the problem in your case. Second, the URL's are written in all CAPS. Many servers either do not recognize CAPS at all, or recognize them as being different from the same letter in lower case. In properly giving links CAPS are never used in a URL. The server in question in this case recognizes them as being a different letter from the smaller case version and gives you a 404 " The requested URL /NJ.html was not found on this server" error. Simply change them to lower case and the page you are looking for will come up. In other words, if you were looking for New Jersey, "WWW.VITALREC.COM/NJ.HTML" will not work unless your browse both adds the http:// AND converts all URL's to lower case, while "http://www.vitalrec.com/nj.html" will work with any browser. For the sake of others whose browsers work differentlyand who may be less experienced on computers, we should always post URL's properly with the http:// and with all lower case letters. Tim Kemp [email protected] wrote: >Sorry but the links you provided at the end of your message are all dead? > -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .