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Nathan, Jacob, and others,
Thanks for the solution.
I really did RTFM, just missed the section on doubling the ampersand.
Nathan, I prefer to have a subject so that the user's mail program won't natter at
them about not having a subject.
--
- bill -
and Deborah,
and the Hounds of Heaven: Fionna, Tulia, Carina (aka "the Monster"), and Becka
visit us at: http://www.HoundsOfHeaven.com
Jacob Hailer wrote:
> >I am trying to make things simpler and easier for our list members so
> >they won't unsubscribe when they really want NOMAIL.
> >So I tried to put this in the bottom banner:
> [. . .]
> >to restart your mail click here and send it:
> >mailto:[log in to unmask]&BODY;=SET%20IRWOLF-L%20MAIL
> >
> >note the additional semicolon after the word "BODY". This prevents the
> >user's mail reader from generating the body section of the email.
>
> LISTSERV's attempting to interpret &BODY as a substitution and is
> failing. From section 9.3 of the List Owner's Manual:
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> | If you need to include a sentence with an ampersand character, you will have
> | to double it to bypass the substitution process, as in "XYZ &&co."
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> I hope this is helpful.
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> Thanks,
> --
> Jacob Haller, Technical Support
> L-Soft international, Inc
> http://www.lsoft.com/
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