Re: Method for putting web URL in plain text email newsletters

I've had several people who got the Catnip Patch Newsletter complain that=20
they couldn't click links that left here clickable... the problem occurs on=
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AOL only as far as I've been able to ascertain.

Linda

At 09:42 PM 4/5/02, you wrote:
>I have Outlook Express 6. I tried the supposedly unclickable link and it
>worked fine. I don't think I've ever had any trouble using links that were
>emailed to me.
>
>HTH
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jay Smith" <jay(at)JaySmith.com>
>To: "hwg-techniques" <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
>Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 2:34 PM
>Subject: Method for putting web URL in plain text email newsletters
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have just discovered that what I thought to be true may no longer be
> > true (unfortunately that is happening entirely too often these days).
> >
> > I thought that a "fully qualified" URL in an email (i.e. plain text
> > email newsletter) would be most likely to be a clickable link in the
> > recipients email system.  (I know that AOL users are hosed.)
> >
> > For example:
> >    http://www.JaySmith.com
> > should be clickable by the recipient.
> >
> > And
> >    www.JaySmith.com
> > would NOT be clickable.
> >
> > HOWEVER, I have learned today that in MS Outlook Express Ver. 6.00.26,
> > **ONLY** the
> >    www.JaySmith.com
> > version was clickable (in a plain text message).
> >
> > That user said that the
> >    http://www.JaySmith.com
> > was visible, but was not a clickable link.
> >
> > 100% of my previous experience was that the opposite was true.
> >
> > So.... what is the consensus on what the situation really is and what
> > to do about it.
> >
> > Jay
> >
> > --
> > Jay Smith
> >
> > e-mail: Jay(at)JaySmith.com  mailto:Jay(at)JaySmith.com
> > website: http://www.JaySmith.com
> >
> > Jay Smith & Associates
> > P.O. Box 650
> > Snow Camp, NC  27349  USA
> >
> > Phone: Int+US+336-376-9991
> > Toll-Free Phone in US & Canada:
> > 1-800-447-8267
> > Fax: Int+US+336-376-6750

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