Wow. I had forgotten that I was on a mailing list populated by
dinosaurs. Thanks for reminding me. What do you use, Russ.
Mutt? Or Pine? Or mail. Or do you just do "more" on
/var/spool/mail?
:)
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Russell Standish
<r.stand...@unsw.edu.au <mailto:r.stand...@unsw.edu.au>> wrote:
Think of the people who do not read their email in a web
browser. I'm
one of those, and I have my reasons (over and above just being a
curmudgeon, of course). The procedure here is:
1. copy the link,
2. start a text editor
3. paste it into a text editor,
4. remove spurious line feeds and continuation characters
from the URL
5. copy the URL again
6. open a web browser
7. select "open web location"
8. paste the URL
9. press return
As Glen says, unless there is a brief summary of what the link is
about *in the email text*, one just won't follow the link.
Even worse are those emails that say "click here".
Supposedly, the
"here" is rendered as a hyperlink, but one doesn't even have
a URL to
begin with.
:).
On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 03:03:42PM -0700, Douglas Roberts wrote:
> </smartass-mode>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Douglas Roberts
<d...@parrot-farm.net <mailto:d...@parrot-farm.net>>wrote:
>
> > Well yes, but I'm afraid one, or at most two clicks are
required. Here's
> > the procedure:
> >
> > 1) Click on the link (I know, you wanted to avoid that,
but...)
> > 2) Squint at just the first sentence or two. If
> > 2) a. the article looks like something you might be
interested in reading,
> > open your eyes more fully and scan to the bottom.
Alternatively, if
> > 2) b. the article looks completely unappealing, click the
little "x"
> > symbol in the browser tab containing the offending verbiage.
> > 3) Proceed on as you were.
> > 4) #endif
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 2:38 PM, glen e. p. ropella
<g...@tempusdictum.com <mailto:g...@tempusdictum.com>>wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Is there any chance you could post a little blurb to go
with these links
> >> so that we don't have to click the link in order to find
out whether or
> >> not we want[ed] to click the link?
> >>
> >> I've been rick-rolled enough to avoid clicking links
with no blurbs. 8^)
> >>
> >> Douglas Roberts wrote at 02/01/2013 01:35 PM:
> >> > Two of them, actually.
> >> >
> >> > http://things-linux.blogspot.com/2013/02/epic-fail.html
> >> >
> >>
http://things-linux.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-natives-are-getting-restless.html
> >>
> >> --
> >> glen e. p. ropella, 971-255-2847 <tel:971-255-2847>,
http://tempusdictum.com
> >>
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