Unfolding the Mystery of Craig’s List E-mail…

by SmartChristy

A friend of mine, Jackie, is looking for a job on Craig’s List. She finds one and wishes to email her résumé to the company. The only problem is that when she clicks the email link, something unexpected happens. In Jackie’s case, another Internet window opens. Computers with email programs installed will pop up blank email window, addressed with the email address that was clicked. Many people do not use the email software that comes with their computer since webmail (Gmail, Yahoo!, etc.) is available. What’s a girl to do?

Copy the email address and paste into the address field of the email program she actually uses. Right click the link and select “Copy shortcut” (instructions based on the Internet Explorer web browser, commands would be comparible in Safari or FireFox). Open up the email program normally used. Compose a new message. Right click in the To: field and select Paste. Extra information which is not necessary will need to be deleted:

• mailto: needs to be deleted
• Everything after the .com/.org/.edu/.biz needs to be deleted

Pay attention to the words between “subject” and “body” because this is what the Subject line of the email message should be. Pick out the words that make sense and delete the rest. Those %20 are equal to a space, so delete those and enter a space.