You can also Right or Control Click to bring up a menu that among other things lets you add a link.

Slightly off topic, do you know know if there is Bounce feature in the current version of Mail? If there is I can’t find it.

My personal preference is to see the actual link, in plain text. It may be ugly but at least I can see it.

Apple Mail will show the link though if you hover it, and that’s nice.

My personal preference is to see the actual link, in plain text. It may be ugly but at least I can see it.

I have been doing that a lot in my comments here on The MacObserver. it kind of shows that the link isn’t going to a spam site. I almost never click on a URL shortened link.

John, I dug around again and couldn’t find the Bounce menu item. I did a web search and pretty much the advice is to use the bounce email item in Automator. I know that it doesn’t work with professional spammers, I want it for some certain pesky people.

I went looking for this and couldn’t find it, even with modifier keys held down. Perhaps the Bounce feature has seen its final demise with Lion?

I think that it is gone for good, it isn’t even an option in Rules. I haven’t used Bounce since before Lion, but the other day I wanted it to 86 an acquaintance who emailed me at my business address.

I asked Apple about the missing Bounce in Lion and was told its absence was a feature…

I asked Apple about the missing Bounce in Lion and was told its absence was a feature…

I suppose that it was rarely used and almost certainly ineffective against spammers.

Moving on and focusing on my idée fixe to fix the idea that not having a send button in OSX Messages is good user interface.

Slightly off topic, do you know know if there is Bounce feature in the current version of Mail? If there is I can’t find it.

I’m pretty sure it’s still there when you right-click the toolbar and hit “Customize…”

That’s the only way I’ve known how to access that. I can’t confirm right now since I’m typing this in Snow Leopard. I use Lion at work, however.

I’m pretty sure it’s still there when you right-click the toolbar and hit “Customize…”

I just rechecked that, it is not there. Maybe there is a way of adding it back via Terminal or something, but I am not going to bother investigating it any further. I am certain that Bounce in Mail is no longer a feature.

Melissa:

Thanks for bringing this up. I have not used this menu feature very much because, at least on my screen, it simply appears as a url link. I had thought that the companion menu item, paste as quote, would alter the appearance in the message, but it does not appear to do so.

While I seldom paste links in email, this one has struck me as no added value. Looking at your example above, obviously there is a missing link to my approach.