On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 04:16:18AM -0500, Tim Pierce wrote:
> 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.
Forms are basic HTML 2.0, but that's a good point anyway. :)
In that case, I suggest sending a multipart/alternative message
with two parts:
- a text/plain part that has a link to a page where there's a
simple form that can be posted to remove the user from the list
- a text/html part that has the form inline (or maybe just the
same link to an external page, depending which you like better)
Hmm, I wonder how popular webmail services like hotmail handle
multipart/alternative messages.
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