[epub] RE: Spammers Subbing - Try encoding

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Azam,

>Yes, I suspected some email clients might want to decode the
>HTML. I might have to do 2 versions when I send it out in my
>ezine.

Well, now you know and knowing is half the battle!
( Yes, I did watch G.I. Joe the cartoon)

>For anyone that's getting confused by all this, the format
>of each letter is:
>      [Ampersand][Hash][ASCII Number][Semicolon]
>a =       &        #        97            ;
>(Without any spaces of course).

Maybe you should include that explanation in
your issue... it lays it out quite well.

>>By the way, I think you were missing a semi-colon
>>between &#111 and : in the...
>Thanks, Michael. You're right!

No problem. :) I'll email you a bill!

>Just out of interest, what is your email client?

Imail suck.0 It's through my web host. I should
probably be popping my mail, but if I use a Yahoo
account it fills up too fast and I have never been
able to get outlook to work correctly... a problem
which is now further exacerbated by the recent
download of Office XP. Just too busy and impatient
to mess with it right now.

>>a = a
>This is how that looks to me (Eudora):
>& amp ; # 97 ; (without the spaces)

I thought that might happen. Confusing, isn't it?
Now you know how I feel when I see "mailto: = mailto:"
and I know there are less experienced publishers
who have no idea what to think about it!

>Written this way, the required code will be displayed in a
>HTML email client. But by the same stroke, anyone using a
>text email reader that copies this into a Web page will see
>code and not letters (in other words it won't work).
>This is because the "&" at the beginning of each coded
>letter is *part* of the code, and not a letter in it's own
>right. Replacing it with the HTML equivalent "& amp;" (space
>added for uniform reproduction) breaks it out of the code
>as an independent letter, causing the browser to display
>"& #97;" (again space added).
>Clear as mud eh?

Well, of course, I get it, but I think you
just confused a few people. Useful information,
but I think only purists such as ourselves will
ever have a use for such information, Azam. :)
By the way, mud is not clear!?! ;)

>Perhaps a better way is to tell everyone to delete the dashes
>in the code below before use:
>mailto: = &-#109;&-#97;&-#105;&-#108;&-#116;&-#111;:

If you want it to be "uniform production" that is
probably the way to go. I think posting two
different examples would cause more confusion than
publishing one example with dashes and instructions
added.

Good luck with the newsletter issue!

Regards,
Michael

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