From DStaal@usa.net Thu Jul 19 19:39:18 2018
From: Daniel Staal <DStaal@usa.net>
To: smartlist@lists.rwth-aachen.de
Subject: Re:Editing subscribing addresses
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 14:36:58 -0500
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--On Thursday, August 1, 2002 13:59 -0400 Charlie Summers 
<charlie(a)lofcom.com> wrote:

>    Er...not to sound confused or anything, but instead of creating a form
> why don't you just make a simple link something like:
>
> <A HREF="mailto:mylist-request(a)mydomain.tld?subject=SUBSCRIBE">
>
>    ...and be done with it? Since you don't _need_ any other information
> other than the subscriber's email address, why bother with a form at all?
> With a form you're depending on how the browser deals with your code (and
> every one will be slightly different), where with a mailto: URL, it's all
> pretty standard.

Well, that was my first choice too.  Client deemed it to confusing, since 
it opens up their email program to send it.  How this is handled is 
actually fairly bug-free in my tests.

>    (Of course, if you _are_ planning on capturing additional information
> at a future date, this obviously won't work.)
>
>          Charlie

Actually, they just asked me to set up another list where they do collect 
additional info at signup.  If I can get this working, I'll use the same 
system.

Daniel T. Staal

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