Robert & Martin,
I've never heard about tinyurl.com before. That's useful; thanks!

Ed,
That's interesting about the forum changing urls into links by itself.
I was unaware it did that. Being me, I must now do a test! <img src="images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Here is a fully quallified url followed by some non-fully qualified ones.
I will type them all as text, placing none of these in url tags.
Let's see which ones convert into links on their own...
http://www.equipped.org/
http://www.equipped.org
www.equipped.org/
www.equipped.org
equipped.org/
equipped.org

Okay, enough geek tricks for one day.
Back to survival stuff... <img src="images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Stay safe,
J.T.