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Re: Reason For Links Opening In New Window

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From: ben morrison
Date: Jan 5, 2007 5:50AM

On 1/5/07, Kallie Swanepoel < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Hi Ben
>
> My apologies for not starting the conversation in the correct manor, I
> was not sure how to do that.

Not a problem, jsut noticed that there was a previous conversation in
the email, some people receive what is called a 'list-digest' where
all the emails are grouped together, therefore its nice to trim the
emails - neater for everyone else as well.

> Thank you for the advise on the linking, I've never really used that
> attribute, but I've seen it a few times, and didn't think that it's
> relevant for the reasons you've mentioned.

Well done for asking anyway, I find them almost as annoying as pop-up
windows, which are finally becoming less and less thankfully.

HTH ben.