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Re: Use the mailto: prefix in your email signatures
Subject:Re: Use the mailto: prefix in your email signatures From:Mike Collier - SSG <MikeCol -at- SBSERVICES -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 23 Jul 1997 13:39:39 -0400
Maybe I'm dense today, but can someone explain what the advantage is of
using mailto:myname -at- myserver -dot- com in the e-mail message, when the reply
button does the same thing (other than not having to delete message
text)?
Even in browser/HTML e-mail systems (hotmail, etc.) you can use the
reply button.
When I try to use mailto: links in messages I receive, MS Exchange asks
me to configure Internet mail (insert names of mail servers, etc.); when
I hit reply, that's not required.
Michael Collier
mikecol -at- sbservices -dot- com
SOFTBANK Services Group
Buffalo, NY http://www.sbservices.com
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>From: Nina L. Panzica[SMTP:panin -at- MINDSPRING -dot- COM]
>Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 1997 1:30 PM
>To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
>Subject: Re: Use the mailto: prefix in your email signatures
>
>>When you write your email in your signature, consider writing it with a
>>mailto: prefix, as follows:
>>
>> mailto:myname -at- myserver -dot- com
>
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