You know what, Steve?  I can happily live with that!

Happy Weekend to you!

--Doug


On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 11:03 PM, Steve Smith <sasm...@swcp.com> wrote:

>  Doug -
>
> I think I have you in a double bind, my early submission was a pretty
> succinct but verbose bit of commentary worthy only of me.   I'm guessing my
> points cancel and I get a big fat zero?
>
> - Steve
>
> I propose a new, potentially lengthy discussion topic for FRIAM:  why,
> and/or why not plain ascii text email readers are/are not superior to html
> readers.
>
>  Points awarded for verbosity.
>
>  Points detracted for succinctness.
>
>  You have been advised.
>
>  --Doug
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 10:42 PM, Steve Smith <sasm...@swcp.com> wrote:
>
>>  I upgraded to "less" about 10 years ago, it makes it easier to scroll
>> through my mail backwards, more or less, though I think these days "more"
>> is just an alias to "less", more or less.
>>
>> 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>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
>>> >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>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, http://tempusdictum.com
>>> > >>
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