At 12:52 -0500 8/10/10, Michael Winter wrote: >On Aug 10, 2010, at 12:42 PM, H F wrote: >Must be a "feature" of whatever mail program/system you are using. The rest of us (or at least most of us?) just saw a link that had to be clicked. The web page was not embedded in the message like you're describing. It would be interesting to know how/why that happened. > I'll bet the at sign "@" in the URL has a special meaning to some mail client. It is supposed to be escaped in anything that a browser might see. <http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/topics/urlencoding.htm> >From <http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt> > The characters ";", "/", "?", ":", "@", "=" and "&" are the characters which may be > reserved for special meaning within a scheme. One scheme mentioned is <username:password at ftp://. . .> But <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt> (Jan 2005) Seems to allow the @ but in a URI and possibly not in a URL. Sigh. -- --> A fair tax is one that you pay but I don't <--