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I became an affiliate and copied the prodcut code but I don't have a website. I just wanted to send out e-mails and get credit if they go to my merchant's site and buy. When I paste it into the e-mail (Eudora) it shows all the HTML stuff. How can I hide the html code in the e-mail so they'll just see "Click here for more details" and hopefully click it?

If the HTML code for your Affiliate link looks like this:

<a href="https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?cl=XXXXX&c=ib&aff=YYYYY" target="ejejcsingle">Click here to visit Merchant Name!</a>

...then the URL portion of that -- which you can provide to TinyURL.com or paste into a plain-text email or a browser address bar -- would be just this part:

https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?cl=XXXXX&c=ib&aff=YYYYY

(The X and Y parts in these examples would, of course, be different for you, and unique to your own particular codes/URLs).

As a test, I sent this to both myself and a friend who has an AOL email. Mine worked fine (Outlook), but his launched our page for a nanosecond then went to a "page not found" default page. If he copies the link into a non-aol browser, it works. Any ideas?

If I understand, you're saying your hop link did bring up the proper landing page, but then the AOL browser went from there to a "page not found" message? Once you arrive at the landing page, our role in the redirection is already over, so anything that happens after that point would be due to something on the landing page itself. Perhaps the site has some sort of bad browser detection that isn't properly recognizing the obsolete AOL browser.

For what it's worth, very few people use the AOL software anymore, since that software was only ever necessary to start a dialup connection to AOL. Most people nowadays have an always-on broadband connection, so they don't need to dialup to AOL anymore, and AOL email can be accessed via AOL.com without using the AOL software at all.