>Midi sez: > >>I have had a lot of problems sending urls in email to AOL subscribers. >>For a while, using the format below, they seemed to work: >> >><a href="http://www.pcsfencing.com/yjr04/menu.htm";>www.pcsfencing.com/ >>yjr04/menu.htm</a> >> >>Now that format causes the email to bounce with this message from AOL: >> >>> (reason: 554-: (HVU:NR) This email is rejected for containing one or >>>more URLs which do not follow RFC guidelines. For additional >>>inforI`Eàon, ID=2644032846c8c) >> >
Michael caused electrons to hula in cyberspace with: >Weird. Maybe AOL has begun rejecting mail with HTML URLs due to spam? >Have you tried sending the URL without the HTML code? > ><http://www.pcsfencing.com/yjr04/menu.htm> > >When you paste in a URL, PowerMail will automatically put the angle >brackets around it. The brackets should indicate to the majority of mail >software that everything in between them is a URL, even if it ends up >being broken across lines. Using the HTML code would work, I think, only >if people haven't turned off HTML viewing in their mail program anyway... > I used to do that and all the AOL recipients would say that what was between the <> was blank. I noticed on a lot of newsletters that I get as plain text, they would write out the link as you would in html. SO I did that for a while and it was successful with AOL. Now the only thing that goes through is when I say "found on the tournament website" without any reference. Midi
