Presentation of email address LO16746

Dutch Driver (ddriver@cs1.mcm.edu)
Wed, 11 Feb 1998 07:45:26 -0600 (CST)

[Host's Note: This is Dutch Driver's tip about how to present your email
address in your sig so that people can click on it to send you a msg. This
depends on the recipients email program; I've verified that it works in
Eudora. It may or may not work in other programs.

Remember that the "right" way to put your sig at the bottom of msgs is
hyphen-hyphen-space-return-return-signaturetext

...Rick]

For the benefit of many, I offer the following tip and apologize for
crosspostings. DD

On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, You wrote:

> I've noticed that your signature includes your email address in such a way
> that I can click on it and the reply form is all set.
>
> Yours is the only postings I've seen this--you clever communicator, you!
> How do you do it?

Changing your address in your sigfile to the form
mailto:yourname@youraddress.com does the trick. I don't know if it works
when embedded in the text of a sentence or if it has to be at the start of
a line stand-alone like

mailto:yourname@youraddress.com

If the either of these examples is highlighted or colored in your mail
reading program, you can then double click on the highlighted or colored
text to initiate an e-mail to that address. I would think this would be
particularly useful to those who get digests.

Hey, glad to know that two degrees in communication are paying off. ;]

Great Optimism,

Dutch Driver
Abilene, TX
Hm. Telephone: 915.698.7217
mailto:ddriver@cs1.mcm.edu

[Host's Further Note: Dutch, if you'll add the line with
hyphen-hyphen-space, then the duplicate "sig" below won't be added to your
msgs when they are distributed on the LO list. ...Rick]

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