At 11:19 PM 12/4/2001, Daniel J. Cody typed these words: >wow. i didnt realize that anyone except garrett and george dillion read >those :) Possibly. But that's because there's a mass of text at the top of messages. Nothing stands out. For example, take your last message. Here are the immediately visible headers in Eudora: -------- X-Authentication-Warning: leo.evolt.org: djc owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 11:49:42 -0600 (CST) From: "Daniel J. Cody" <djc at members.evolt.org> X-Sender: djc at leo.evolt.org To: theforum at lists.evolt.org Subject: Re: [Theforum] Survey update Reply-To: theforum at lists.evolt.org Sender: theforum-admin at lists.evolt.org X-MajorGumbo-version: 1.1.6.sexy+noattachments X-evolt: evolt.org - smoothering your hotdog in a lot of mayo since 1998 List-Id: discuss evolt.org's direction <theforum.lists.evolt.org> X-BeenThere: theforum at lists.evolt.org -------- Whoa! That's a lot of text. If you put anything about the survey in there, it will hardly get noticed. But... Something interesting happens when you put a URL in an X-Header. Email clients like Eudora automatically turn it into a hyperlink, and that makes it blue and underlined, which stands out really nicely. So if we throw away a few superfluous headers and change the X-evolt header slightly, we get this: -------- Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 11:49:42 -0600 (CST) From: "Daniel J. Cody" <djc at members.evolt.org> X-Sender: djc at leo.evolt.org To: theforum at lists.evolt.org Subject: Re: [Theforum] Survey update Reply-To: theforum at lists.evolt.org Sender: theforum-admin at lists.evolt.org X-evolt: Evolt needs you! Take our survey now at: http://www.evolt.org/article/xheader/27/18041 -------- Don't you think that hyperlink would catch people's attention? Regards, Madhu <<< * >>> Madhu Menon madhu at members.evolt.org Blog: http://madman.weblogs.com