On 5/28/04 1:03 PM, "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If I type my email in Word and insert a proper URL there, and send it out as > HTML mail through Entourage, it all works. But that's a horrible, kludgey > way to send email. > > Perhaps you think it's unimportant, but the lack of that basic feature has > caused me problems this week. I'm sending out political fund raising emails > to some friends and associates, and want to include a hyperlinke to the > donation page that specifically ties into my KerryCore account... But it's a > big, long awkward URL. Good usability would let me just put "Click here to > donate," but I can't. And that's frustrating. > > When something is so frustrating that I walk into the other room and use > Outlook (gag, spit) on my Windows computer to send the email, that's a big > deal to me. Because I hate using Outlook. It's not nearly as good a program > as Entourage -- but its a more functional program when it comes to authoring > email. Nonsense. There's no RFC requirement for href links in email, and some damned good reasons not to allow them. (web bugs, etc.) I know a few places that are rejecting emails with complex URL links for the reason that you cannot tell what that URL really links to without viewing the raw message source or clicking the link. As well, there are services, like TinyURL that are designed to work around overly long URLS and they do so quite well. If the only reason you can't use Microsoft Entourage is because it can't do complex links well then you're going to be pissed at many mail clients on the Mac. As well, what's so kludgy about using Word? You get far better formatting options, and if you have Microsoft Entourage 2004, you have Word too. john -- Love is a merry elf dancing a happy jig, when suddenly, he turns on you with a submachine gun. Matt Groening -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
