# Another "Hey, I didn't know you could do that!" thread. **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [May 17, 2003, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-hey-i-didnt-know-you-could-do-that-thread/175826 "2003-05-17T02:45:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2003, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-hey-i-didnt-know-you-could-do-that-thread/175826/1 "2003-05-17T02:45:39Z")
I’ve been here at the Dope a long time. I’ve used AOL for almost all of my time here and have always used IE. At the top of the IE browser window there are 3 icons: a heart for favorites, a running guy for IM and a peice of paper with a pencil. This peice of paper with a pencil will open up an e-mail with a link to whatever thread you’re reading _and_ give your e-mail the subject of “Check out Straight Dope Message Board-- [insert name of thread]” Boy am I unobservant. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2003, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-hey-i-didnt-know-you-could-do-that-thread/175826/2 "2003-05-17T02:51:14Z")
No comment, but just seeing how my new oversized sig looks… ---
**Author:** ![PhiloVance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e19adc/32.png) [@PhiloVance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhiloVance)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2003, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-hey-i-didnt-know-you-could-do-that-thread/175826/3 "2003-05-17T04:46:04Z")
Boy, am I glad I have sigs turned off. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![xash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c6cbf5/32.png) [@xash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xash)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2003, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-hey-i-didnt-know-you-could-do-that-thread/175826/4 "2003-05-17T07:58:38Z")
**DrFidelius** , I believe oversized sigs are [frowned upon](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=3407287#post3407287) by the powers that be. ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2003, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-hey-i-didnt-know-you-could-do-that-thread/175826/5 "2003-05-17T19:06:57Z")
Hmm, what version are ya running? I’ve got a star, and I have XP. ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2003, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-hey-i-didnt-know-you-could-do-that-thread/175826/6 "2003-05-17T19:08:16Z")
Er, a star for ‘Favorites’. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2003, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-hey-i-didnt-know-you-could-do-that-thread/175826/7 "2003-05-17T19:12:03Z")
Now that I look carefully, this only happens in the AOL browser, which is why I probably never noticed it before. I don’t usually use the AOL browser to read the Dope because AOL is too impatient and will give me a “page not found” error within two seconds. And we all know you need a bit longer than two seconds to get a response from the Dope. I’ve got AOL 8.0. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2003, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-hey-i-didnt-know-you-could-do-that-thread/175826/8 "2003-05-18T01:10:28Z")
**xash** , I don’t worry about that. I’ve known most of the powers that be since Moses was in knickers. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2003, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-hey-i-didnt-know-you-could-do-that-thread/175826/9 "2003-05-18T01:31:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Biggirl \* > \*\*I’ve been here at the Dope a long time. I’ve used AOL for almost all of my time here and have always used IE. > > At the top of the IE browser window there are 3 icons: a heart for favorites, a running guy for IM and a peice of paper with a pencil. This peice of paper with a pencil will open up an e-mail with a link to whatever thread you’re reading _and_ give your e-mail the subject of “Check out Straight Dope Message Board-- [insert name of thread]” > Boy am I unobservant. \*\* Did this work for you? I do it, and it claims I don’t have access to that page. I thought the feature had been turned off a long time ago, but I didn’t know if it had been turned back on. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2003, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-hey-i-didnt-know-you-could-do-that-thread/175826/10 "2003-05-18T18:48:14Z")
No, no… **Biggirl** is not talking about an SDMB feature. She’s talking about an AOL feature. The board used to have a similar feature, but for technical reasons, it had to be disabled. The AOL feature works completely differently: It just opens up a new e-mail window, and automatically inserts the URL and title of whatever page you’re currently on (so this would work with any page, not just the SDMB). From there, it’s exactly as if you had sent the e-mail yourself. At least, that’s what I presume is happening. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2003, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-hey-i-didnt-know-you-could-do-that-thread/175826/11 "2003-05-18T22:55:22Z")
Upon rereading, I see you’re right, **Chronos**. I was thinking of the disabled “Email this thread” thingie. ---
**Author:** ![Hanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b3f665/32.png) [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2003, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-hey-i-didnt-know-you-could-do-that-thread/175826/12 "2003-05-20T07:24:39Z")
If you’re running Internet Explorer without AOL (like I am) you have a similar feature. Go to the File menu, scroll down to send (follow the arrow), and then you can send the link by email. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2003, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-hey-i-didnt-know-you-could-do-that-thread/175826/13 "2003-05-20T10:03:57Z")
Yeah, but doing it through IE, I thought, wasn’t quite the same as the vB feature, which sends the entire thread, not just the page you’re on. Sure, one link covers all pages, but if you send as page in IE, I think you’re only sending the first page. ---
**Author:** ![Hanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b3f665/32.png) [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2003, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-hey-i-didnt-know-you-could-do-that-thread/175826/14 "2003-05-20T21:01:19Z")
I tried it on another vB forum I post at that doesn’t have the “email a page” feature turned off, and it only sends a link to the thread, not the actual page with all the posts. So the vB feature works the same as the IE browser feature. Now I don’t know if the mods approve or not, but using IEs “send page by email” feature you can send the whole page with all the posts, but you do have to repeat for every page in the thread. In IE these features can also be accessed if you have the “mail” link in your menu toolbar. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-hey-i-didnt-know-you-could-do-that-thread/175826/15 "2003-05-22T05:17:29Z")
Dr F, I love you truly, but your sig is too long. Please edit it down to 4 lines and/or spaces. your humble TubaDiva Administrator ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-hey-i-didnt-know-you-could-do-that-thread/175826/16 "2003-05-22T17:57:49Z")
> [@](#): > > Now I don’t know if the mods approve or not, but using IEs “send page by email” feature you can send the whole page with all the posts, but you do have to repeat for every page in the thread. Or just send the first page, and let the person getting it just hit the “page 2” link at the bottom. And so far as I know, the technical difficulties with vBulletin’s “send page” feature would not apply to the Internet Explorer feature. I’ve never heard any complaint about people manually sending e-mails with links to threads, and from the Board’s point of view, use of the IE feature should be exactly equivalent to that. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-hey-i-didnt-know-you-could-do-that-thread/175826/17 "2003-05-22T18:00:50Z")
Alternatively, click on Show Printable Version, then click the Show all XX Posts in This Thread link, THEN File|Send the link. Then you’d get all of the posts in one swell foop.