Re: Links in email

["Huber, Mike" <mrhuber -at- SOFTWARE -dot- ROCKWELL -dot- COM>]

One other thing: if the address or URL has spaces in it, replace them
with "%20".
For example:

mailto://joe schmo -at- fakedomain -dot- com

is interpreted by most mail programs as an email address of "joe"
followed by some text that happens to be "schmo -at- fakedomain -dot- com" but
which isn't part of the address.

On the other hand,

mailto://joe%20schmo -at- fakedomain -dot- com

is interpreted as an address including an ASCII character 20, which
happens to be a space.

Mike Huber
mike -dot- huber -at- software -dot- rockwell -dot- com

>-----Original Message-----
>From:  Peter Kent [SMTP:techwr -at- arundel -dot- com]
>> Could someone please tell me how to create a link to
>> a website or email address in a regular email message?
>
>> Apparantly everyone on this list knows how but me.
>
>Simply type the URL or e-mail address, including the protocol; that is,
>include http:// or mailto: before the address. If the recipient's e-mail
>program can create links, it will do so.
>
>A quick tip, though. Don't enclose the link in any way. For instance, don't
>do this: <http://www.fakedomain.com/>, or (http://www.fakedomain.com/), or
>even end the link with a period. Some e-mail programs will screw up when the
>link has enclosing <> or (), or if any character other than a space is found
>immediately before or after the link, so to be completely safe make sure the
>link is not enclosed in any way. (The a-mail programs will probably create a
>link, but when the user clicks on the link incorrect info will be sent to
>the browser.)
>

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