The new forum intentionally converts http links to clickable links. That means even if someone doesn't bother to use the A HREF tag to create a link, the pure-text link will still be converted to a clickable link.

You should still need to be logged in to use any HTML tags. But regardless of whether or not you are logged in or not, the forum will present all http links as clickable links automatically. This is for the convenience of the reader so that they don't have to copy/paste the link from a message into the browser.

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Craig Steiner
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