[thelist] Hyperlinks in different email clients, particularly AOL

[Sentient Technologies]

-- at 11:49 PM -0400 on 7/8/01, Mike DeHart wrote:
> 
> Am crafting email autoresponders in plain ascii txt. 
> Am using
> 
> <mailto:foo at foo.org> for email, &
> <http://foo.org> for http.
> 
> Will this cover the bases pretty well? Are the brackets 
> still needed for AOL email users? Anyone not see these
> two above as hyperlinks?
> 


Hiya Mike,

For AOL email clients you have to use an 
anchor tag. Most other email client will 
see the links you used as examples but AOL 
will not see them as clickable links unless 
you use tags. Of course some of the other 
email clients (Eudora for example) will see 
the tag plus the link. But if you want 
clickable links in AOL emails you need to 
do something like this...

AOL Link - <a href="http://foo.org/">click to visit our website now</a>

AOL Link - <a href="mailto:foo at foo.org">click to send us an email</a>

And yes, if you have a large number of AOL 
respondents then giving them a clickable link 
will definitely make a difference in how they 
respond.

Note: be sure to turn *off* any automatic
word-wrapping when you're sending AOL-type
links; you want them to go out (and arrive
if you're lucky) as one unbroken line.

Hope that helps,

Simon
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