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 <[email protected]>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 > > <[email protected]>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 > >> > >> > >> ============================================================ > >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > >> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > *Doug Roberts > > [email protected]* > > *http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins*<http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> > > * <http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> > > 505-455-7333 - Office > > 505-672-8213 - Mobile* > > > > > > -- > *Doug Roberts > [email protected]* > *http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins*<http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> > * <http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> > 505-455-7333 - Office > 505-672-8213 - Mobile* > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
