Actually, the easiest way as of the last couple weeks to acticate a URL here at FR is to avoid using any HTML in your post -- then the URL will automatically be converted to a link as in http://www.nydailynews.com/2002-06-30/News_and_Views/Opinions/a-156023.asp. It looks like you had entered one <br> in your post, which disabled this new nifty feature.