Re: subscription confirmations (was Re: Blacklisted: TOPICA.COM)

[Tim Pierce]

On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 03:21:19AM -0500, Gerald Oskoboiny wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 06:55:49PM -0500, Tim Pierce wrote:
> 
> > Including a small form in the mail itself is a good idea as long
> > as all the clicky clicky clients can handle it.  I suspect a lot
> > of them are only prepared to deal with A HREF.
> 
> I don't think there can be many existing clients in this situation.
> I remember there were still a few browsers in use in 1994 that didn't
> understand forms, but that's 6 years ago, forever in web years.

Yes, but we're talking about mail readers, not web browsers.  It's
entirely plausible that the authors of GUI mail readers would add
the ability to follow a hyperlink from a mail message, but not
support the full HTML/HTTP suite with cookies.

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Regards,
Tim Pierce
RootsWeb.com lead system admonsterator
and Chief Hacking Officer