I noticed that the text of your links were all fine when cut and pasted into an address bar.
All you have to do to avoid using html is paste the raw links from the sites you want to share without any html into a reply box. If you include any html the trick will not work. Be sure and hit the enter button after each of them. Then type a misspelled nonsense word at the end of your post. Do a spell check with the spell button, hit the “apply correction box”. The corrected text you get back will have proper html applied by the brilliant editor built into the Free Republic website. Then just go back and delete the misspelled nonsense word.
Hope that my explanation is decipherable. Give it a try. If not I will try to do a better job of explaining how it works. It saves a lot of time.
That’s a neat trick, thanks. I knew about the first part, but I was unaware that the spell checker would add html.