Help Me with E-mailing Someone A Post or Thread

[jazzy mary]

Hey Lois, I often want to e-mail a friend a post or a thread but it never seems to work. Very frustrating! Can you help me out?

[bluenoter]

JM--

I think I can help, and I hope that Lois will correct me if I'm wrong.

If you click on "E-mail this page" under Thread Tools, you'll get the message that it's been disabled--i.e., it doesn't work. However, "Show printable version" works, and you should click on that. Then Copy as much of the thread as you want and do one of the following, depending on how long the material is:

1. Paste it into a word processing program, Save the document, and Attach it to an e-mail, or

2. Paste it directly into an e-mail.

Okay?

[jazzy mary]

Thanks, I think I stumbled on another way too. If you put your cursor on the thread line and right click, it will e-mail the page.

[bluenoter]

Sounds great! That might be a browser function that I never use. Can you please explain exactly what you mean by "the thread line"?

Anyone?

[groover]

In Internet Explorer: select Tools from the menu bar, Mail and News, then Send Page.

[bluenoter]

Originally Posted by groover

In Internet Explorer: select Tools from the menu bar, Mail and News, then Send Page.

Groover--

Thanks and duh. I'm sure that's an elementary function, but I've never used it, and I can't use it now because I haven't specified an e-mail client in my browser (IE). (When I click on Send Page or Send Link, nothing happens.) But that should help others.

Meantime, Jazzy Mary e-mailed me a link to this thread (by way of example). I still don't know how she picked up the URL (address), but one wants only a link, one can always pick it up this way (if one doesn't have an e-mail client set up in one's browser):

--To get the URL (address) of a thread, go to the beginning of the thread, then Copy the URL from your browser's address bar.

--To get the URL (address) of a single post, right-click on the post number (in IE), then click on Properties and Copy the URL.

Then Paste the URL (address) into an e-mail, where it will almost certainly become a link automatically.

JM--

However, I'm still dying of curiosity over what you meant by "the thread line" (that one can right-click)!

[jazzy mary]

What I e-mailed you was my "question mark Help Me with E-mailing someone " thread title. I put my cursor on that, by my first post, right clicked and e-mailed that to you. When I did that earlier to my sister for the Ernestine Anderson thread, she got it and was able to read the entire thread. That's what I wanted to do.

[bluenoter]

Originally Posted by jazzy mary

What I e-mailed you was my "question mark Help Me with E-mailing someone " thread title. I put my cursor on that, by my first post, right clicked and e-mailed that to you. When I did that earlier to my sister for the Ernestine Anderson thread, she got it and was able to read the entire thread. That's what I wanted to do.

JM--

I know what you e-mailed me. I too was able to click on your link and read the thread to which you'd linked. I'm glad you were able to do what you wanted to do (send a link, not the text itself). I e-mailed you back, but I assume that it was at your work address, so you'll probably see my e-mail tomorrow.

However, if you have enough patience, I'd still like to know:

Where "by your first post" was the thread title? Were you looking at the open thread? If so, was the thread title on which you right-clicked somewhere above your first post, or what?

Thanks!

[Kevin Bresnahan]

E-mails with "Links" attached are blocked by most E-mail servers. My company blocks all file attachments that end in .lnk (which is the file extension for links). A better way to send a link is to copy and paste the URL of the page you want to send. Simply highlight the URL, press Ctrl+C then go into the body of your E-mail and click Ctrl+V.

I think my Norton Antin-virus program may also block .lnk files. These files have been used by virus writers to execute malicious code.

I don't click on .lnk files any more and I wouldn't recommend it.

Kevin

[Enforcer]

bluenoter,

I'm not sure what Mary did, but if you go to any main forum view where you're viewing the list of threads in the forum (like The Alley), you can right click any thread and select Copy Link Location. If you paste that into an email message, that link will take someone directly to the thread. Also, to the far right of every post, there is a post counter that indicates what number the post is (like a post counter for the thread). That counter number is also a link and can be right clicked to copy and paste. That link will take someone to that specific post.

There are probably better ways to do it, but those work for me.

[bluenoter]

Kevin--

Thanks. I'd never even heard of a .link file. I was talking about simply picking up URLs, which every e-mail program I know of automatically converts to links (without giving them a .link extension--at least, not one that's visible).

Larry--

Thanks. I knew about the post numbers. I just tried right-clicking on a thread title from a main forum view, and I saw a Copy Shortcut option in the resulting popup menu, which indeed served to copy the URL of the thread. I swear, that option has never been on the menu I saw before!

I know a number of ways to pick up the URL of a thread, but I was just dying to figure out what Mary was right-clicking on. Thanks again!

Originally Posted by jazzy mary

Hey Lois, I often want to e-mail a friend a post or a thread but it never seems to work. Very frustrating! Can you help me out?

Check to make sure you are doing it right.

[chuckyd4]

Originally Posted by Che

Check to make sure you are doing it right.

Brilliant.

That will not help here, thank you.