Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 05:51:44 -0600
From: Jack Teems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I repeatedly have comments from AOL customers that they are unable to
send email from the link on my web page at http://bounce.to/jteems in
order to subscribe to my mail list. Is this just a peculiar problem
with AOL because it won't handle the javascript in my site?
Yes, I have the same problem with AOL browsers (just PC browsers
apparently, not the Mac ones).
The link you have is:
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=subscribe neatnettricks
I have links in the form of:
logit.cgi?http://www.nontoxic.com/
(note this is a problem to keep track of clickthroughs for an ads
page)
AOL browsers seem to barf at the ? I have been trying to figure out why
and if it's fixable. Some people on my ISP's user's groups think it has to
do with the way the html headers are returned. I didn't write my problem
so I really haven't a clue what this means. Basically...AOL browsers suck
and people should download different ones :-). Or you could provide an
alternate link for AOL browser users...that leads to standard directions.
I used to use a subject header add on for mail to links to sub to my list,
but stopped when I found out that lynx couldn't handle them (this was
several years ago...they might have improved).
Actually, I want to use a form to do subs from the web, as much as I like
the simplicity of your solution. So many people don't know how to set the
return address in their browser...about 10% (okay, 5%) of my users have
junk From: lines (and I don't mean nospam stuff, I mean "user" for a
username or things like "[EMAIL PROTECTED]@best.com").
Cyndi
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