# The e-mail URL saga continues...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-e-mail-url-saga-continues/27621>\
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**Created:** [July 31, 2000, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-e-mail-url-saga-continues/27621 "2000-07-31T23:32:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2000, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-e-mail-url-saga-continues/27621/1 "2000-07-31T23:32:01Z")

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I got a real nice reply in this forum when I asked what to do when I can’t click on an e-mail hyperlink from a public computer. Unfortunately, the copy-and-paste procedure didn’t work when I tried it: All I got was the literal URL when I pasted it into the “TO” space in my e-mail site. No URL coding, no underline, nothing. So I’m back at square one, it seems… ☹

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**Author:** ![DoZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/838e76/32.png) [@DoZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoZ)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2000, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-e-mail-url-saga-continues/27621/2 "2000-08-01T01:29:14Z")

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You can hover over the link and the address will appear in the browser status line.

You can right-click and select Properties, then cut and paste from there. You still need a web-based email program, though. Yahoo is easy to set up from any computer in a hurry. So is [email.com](http://email.com).

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**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2000, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-e-mail-url-saga-continues/27621/3 "2000-08-03T22:19:32Z")

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Thanx 🙂