When I receive the reply email notification from MSDN forum on my Hotmail account, the notification message is wrapped in the anchor tag
<a target="_blank"> which renders the whole message as a hyperlink with no action performed on click. Here is the screenshot:
http://i47.tinypic.com/29537o5.png. The text starting from the word "Reply:" till the end of line 5 "You can" is a hyperlink with the following markup:
<a target="_blank">
Reply:
<p>
Hi Real, it seems you have more questions? Why not post it and let MVPs know?
</p>
<hr class="ecxsig">
<p>
Please not forget mark your answer, and unmark your disagreed point.
</p>
The Microsoft Developer Network
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<p>
You are receiving this email because you subscribed to a forums thread. You can
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</a>
Please remove this enclosing anchor tag from the message markup so there is no confusion.
Also, please verify the view on different clients, such as
http://mail.live.com, http://mail.google.com, Windows Live Mail, Microsoft Office Outlook etc. Surprisingly, all clients renders the (flawed) markup differently.
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