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[Chris Hastie <address@concealed>]

On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, elijah <address@concealed> wrote
> A user pointed out that some versions of IE (6?) do not allow the 
> subject to be set in the 'mailto:'.
...
> Have other people seen this behavior? Perhaps the mailto link should be 
> removed, include a warning about IE, or replaced with a http url.

I've not seen it with IE as such, but there are certainly MUAs around 
that don't handle mailto: links to well. I occasionally see messages 
arrive here with an SMTP forward envelope of 
"mailto:address@concealed";. Web mail clients often don't 
handle the ?subject well, though some manage.

I've restructured some of my messages to try to be a little clearer:

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If you wish to subscribe to the list 'address@concealed',
please send a message to address@concealed with the following
subject:

  auth 266e6c13 subscribe list

With many email programs you may do this by replying to this message,
retaining the subject line. Clicking the link below may also generate a 
suitable message:

  mailto:address@concealed?subject=auth%20266e6c13%20subscribe%20list%20
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Chris Hastie