You can enter a full address in the AOL software and get to a web site. The
keywords were set up mainly for the various AOL areas.
The keyword thing actually works in the real world. Sometimes with humorous
results. The way that it works (at least originally) is that the software
assumes that there is a www before and a com after the word. There is a
story (an urban legend it seems) about a high school librarian that was
demonstrating this to a class and picked the White House home page as an
example (forgetting that that site would be .gov)
Have any of you ever gone to www.whitehouse.com, if you have then you know
the punch line.
(for those that haven't--it's a porno site.)
Paula Browning
Law Librarian
Office of the Arkansas Attorney General
"Any opinions stated are those of the author and are not the official
opinion of the Attorney General or the State of Arkansas."
-----Original Message-----
From: Camille Broussard [mailto:cbroussard@nylaw-07.nyls.edu]
> I do not think you can use forward slashes, etc. on aol -- you must use
only the keyword of
> an address?
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