I like Listmanager's messages better than those from Listmanager
John Eshleman
listm...@www.virtualcommunity.org writes:
<< Regarding the email coming from Listmanager, this is true. Soon
Behav-An will be identified as well as the sender, we have some new
software to configure first, so hold on for a bit, the new identifier
will be coming. >>
Well, I hope so. One of the benefits of old "Behav-An" was the
ability to simply delete, unread, messages posted by certain
individuals. Now, until that new software is configured, one
has to open a message from listmanager to see who sent it.
And then make the decision about deleting it.
Also, as you can see in the reply tag prepended to the front of
the body of this message, I am replying to "listmanager." Now,
I know the actual person to whom I am replying, but does anyone
else?
<< If your reader (and some of the more primitive ones are indeed
like you refer to) do not let you click on the actual text
To reply: mailto:behav-...@www.virtualcommunity.org
To start new topic: mailto:beha...@www.virtualcommunity.org
To login: http://www.virtualcommunity.org:8080/~behav-an
then all you have to do is copy the address and manually send the reply
(just like you would have had to do with the OLD Behav-An anyway, so
there's no disadvantage here) >>
Let me resay this: AOL 4.0 email does, as a matter of fact, permit
clickable links in the body of a message. And let me repeat an
irony: In a recent message you sent from OLD "Behav-An", some
clickable links showed up underlined and in blue. What's interesting is
that, at least in this case, the new "Behav-An" doesn't have clickable
links. Since AOL 4.0 can and does permit and handle clickable links
in an email message, I don't see the problem as being on AOL's
end.
-- Not the listmanager.
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