Midi on 2/17/04 said >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) > >Their link doesn't work, so I am clueless on how to proceed. Does anyone >have a suggestion to send urls to AOL users that they will see and that >won't cause AOL to bounce the email?
There are a couple of services, Tiny Url and Make a Shorter Link, that will shorten your links. If you want something just for "now" that might work. Another way would be to type the url in such a way that it doesn't get highlighted, it won't be clickable; but you could make it simple like leaving off the www pcsfencing.com/yjretc. And tell your correspondents to put the www. back in. Also you have the html markers in there, try just using www.pcsfencing.com/yjro4/menu.htm and leave the rest out. -- Barbara Needham
