Re: FAQ update

From: Nord, Al <Norda_at_email.domain.hidden>
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 15:57:30 -0600

I am not an AOL user ! my address for the maclist is chippuller_at_email.domain.hidden

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> From: Dan Knight[SMTP:listmom_at_email.domain.hidden]
> Reply To: lisalist_at_email.domain.hidden
> Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 3:57 PM
> To: lisalist_at_email.domain.hidden
> Subject: FAQ update
>
> Have you ever noticed that it's almost always the AOL users who can't
> subscribe, can't ask the listmom to subscribe them, and then post to the
> list asking to be unsubscribed? Well, there's a reason for it. It's not a
> good reason, but it explains the problem.
>
> Putting URLs and email addresses between greater than and less than signs
> - < and > - is a standard as old as the Web. With one exception, every
> email client built since the advent of the Web that supports active links
> will recognize <mailto:listmom_at_email.domain.hidden> and properly place just the
> "listmom_at_email.domain.hidden" part in the To: field.
>
> The exception, of course, is AOL. Why? Maybe they don't even know.
> Anyhow, I've done some research on the subject, determined that every
> email client tested works properly *except for AOL*, and added the
> following section to the list FAQ.
>
>
> Why don't the command addresses work properly?
>
> Short answer: They do -- unless you're using America Online. For some
> reason known only to AOL, their email client will read a link like
> <mailto:listmom_at_email.domain.hidden> and paste everything between the "<" and
> the ">" into the address field. Of course it doesn't work, despite the
> fact this is an industry standard.
>
> Sorry, AOL users, you'll just have to remove the "mailto:" from the
> address manually since America Online refuses to follow convention.
>
>
> AOL users, please make a note of this. And if you have the time, please
> vent your displeasure at AOL for not following the same system everyone
> else uses.
>
> Dan the listmom
>
>
> Dan Knight, president, Cobweb Publishing, Inc.
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Received on 2001-12-03 14:06:26