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From: Rick Hill
Date: Jun 9, 2011 12:33PM

Howdy,

Scenario: a page that lists information about many people. Each person's entry would have their name, title, phone number and email address. Like:

Joe Doe
123-1234
maillink

Sally Smith
997-9876
maillink

If the mailink information is all related to the person's name, what would be the appropriate mail link text? In this case, I'm thinking it would make best sense to use " <EMAIL REMOVED> " rather than "Sally Smith" since the latter is repetitive and the former informative?

And, how best to associate all of the person's info to their name? Headers good enough?

<h3>Joe Doe</h3>
<p>123-1234</p>
<a href="mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> "> <EMAIL REMOVED> </a>

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Rick Hill