can it be done? like Vb code or something like 
[url]http://whatever.com[/url]

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Clarification of Question by esoteric-ga on 12 Jul 2003 20:18 PDT

(it's easy for me to compose and host webpages, but a hasle to
learn/get software to compose html mail)

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Request for Question Clarification by mvguy-ga on 12 Jul 2003 22:21 PDT

Let me put your question in my words to see if I understand your
question correctly: What you want to do is to send e-mail to people,
and make sure than when they receive the e-mail they can click on a
link in the e-mail that will take them to a certain web page.  Is that
correct?

If that's what you want, then the answer is no, it is not possible for
you to do anything so that any reader will receive a clickable link. 
However, it is possible to arrange things so that most readers will
receive a clickable link.

If that is what you would like, please let me know what e-mail program
you're using. Also let me know which operating system you're using,
and if you'd be willing to use a different e-mail program.

Thanks!

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Clarification of Question by esoteric-ga on 13 Jul 2003 11:33 PDT

I know all about clickable links.

Not received as a clickable link, "received as html", as if it were
html mail, as if
it wasn't nessasary to click at all. Kind of like an automatic link to
a webpage.
Like the automatic redirects that some webpages have.

Using Opera M5 mail

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Request for Question Clarification by sublime1-ga on 13 Jul 2003 13:56 PDT

esoteric...

You seem to be saying that you want the actual webpage to appear
in the email, rather than just a link to it. I'm not familiar with
Opera, but with Outlook Express, when you set the format to send
html mail (and assuming your recipient has their email program
set to read html email), you can accomplish this by going to the
webpage in question, right-clicking and selecting 'view source'.

This will give you the html code for the webpage, which you can
then copy and paste into your email. In Outlook Express, you need
to do this on a tabbed page marked 'source', as simply pasting
the code onto the 'edit' page will not reproduce the webpage.

Be aware that all the images and links may not work, depending 
on the nature of the html code making up the page you are sending.

Another option, which will allow the images to be reproduced, but
which will also not allow for working links, is to go to the page
(in Internet Explorer) and select File > Save as > Web Archive,
single file (*.mht). This will allow you to save the page as a
file with an .mht extension, which can be attached to an email,
and received by anyone, even if their email program is not set
to receive .html email. The file will open by default in an IE
browser and will present the page accurately, though the links
won't work.

As for accurately reproducing a fully-functional page in an email,
I don't know that this can be done without extensive revision of
the html source code for the page.

Does this information answer your question, or assist you in
clarifying it?

If you write the URL in full, formal format, as in
 http://whatever.com/
you have done all you can do to ensure that the recipient receives a
clickable link. The rest is up to the email software being used by the
recipient. Some (mostly older) versions of some email client software
applications simply don't support "hot" links.