[aclug-L] Re: Email question: format

["Burt Humburg" <bhumburg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Heh. Yes, I read the email and I did see the significance. Thank you
nonetheless for answering my question, though it still remains because I'm
too inarticulate.

I'll put it in a different way. I'm not interested in my stuff formats in
HTML, or how to format the HTML at all. (I am interested, of course, but I
know how to do *that*.) I'm aware, thanks nonetheless for reiterating, that
coding <a href="mailto:foobar@xxxxxxxxxx>Burt</a> will show only "Burt" on
the screen but will send "foobar@xxxxxxxxxx" to my email client.

I'm wanting more than that. I want to send both "foobar@xxxxxxxxxx" and
"Burt Humburg" to my email client, and I'm wondering if there's a standard
to do so...

In my email client, I can paste in a string "Burt Humburg
<bhumburg@xxxxxxxxxxx>" and it will correctly digest the string to label
(Burt Humburg) and hyperlink (bhumburg@xxxxxxxxxxx). I can do both in HTML
<a href="Burt Humburg <bhumburg@xxxxxxxxxxx>"> and send them both to my
client.

So, you see, my question has little to do with HTML. I'm interested more in
"TO" field formatting. Is there a standard, or is this just my email client
being a smarta**? (I'm almost positive I was doing this back in my PINE
days.)

When I first programmed the site, I used "[]" characters instead of "<>" to
delimit what went where. My client promptly boinked. Thankfully, GoLive
allows easy updating, so it didn't take long to change things sitewide.
Nevertheless, I'm wondering if there was a standard, or if my client is the
only one that can digest this kind of thing.

Anyways, I'm wondering if there is a standard for "TO" field formatting.
Know ye of any?

BCH

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