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 <[email protected]>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 <[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 > -- *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*
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