Revised footers

Larry Swain swainl at rocky.edu
Fri Jun 5 18:40:46 EDT 1998


At 02:51 PM 6/5/1998 -0400, you wrote:
>
>Of course, now that it may actually be too late, I've just notice what may
>be a problem: 
>
>The proposed form of the footers may be handy (e.g. for unsubscribing, but
>I suspect they will quickly become problematic for the following reasons).
>
>In the footer are forms like the following:
>
>>  mailto:b-greek at franklin.oit.unc.edu
>>  mailto:subscribe-b-greek at franklin.oit.unc.edu
>>  mailto:unsubscribe-b-greek at franklin.oit.unc.edu?subject=nichael at sover.net
>
>These forms are only meaningful for those (poor, benighted ;-) souls who
>are reading their mail in a browser (especially this last one).
>
To a degree:  it also makes sense if one is using Eudora, Pegasus, or any
other email program for Win95, Win 3.1, or Mac in so far as I know.
However, if one is using DOS, or Unix, based programs, then you are quite
correct, the html tags are problematic.  But I would hope that those who are
using Pine, Elm and the like would read the "mailto:" as an instruction and
understand it that way.   What do others think?

Larry Swain




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