Hi Paul, please reply to list - not to me in private.
On Thu, 22 Feb 2018 11:39:57 +0100 Paul Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > On Monday, 19 February 2018 11:07:23 CET you wrote: > > Hi all! > > > > On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 10:36:03 +0100 > > > > Paul Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > As you probably know by now, KDE received an incredibly generous donation > > > of 200K USD from the Pineapple Fund. We have made this public today. > > > > > > You can find the dot article here: > > > > > > https://dot.kde.org/2018/02/19/kde-receives-200000-usd-donation-pineapple-> > > > > fund > > > > > > Social Media links are here: > > > > > > https://www.facebook.com/kde/posts/10155596759068918 > > > > > > https://twitter.com/kdecommunity/status/965514290705952768 > > > > > > https://mastodon.technology/@kde/99551258536879685 > > > > > > https://plus.google.com/b/105126786256705328374/+KdeOrg/posts/Qc3AbPegNCE > > > > > > https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6371281068858966016 > > > > > > https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/7ylhg0/ > > > kde_received_200000_from_the_pineapple_fund/ > > > > > > https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/7ylhd3/ > > > kde_received_200000_from_the_pineapple_fund/ > > > > some of these links are split into two lines. Please fix it in the future > > and/or use a url shortener. > > Hello Shlomi, > > How are you today? I hope you are well. > quite. > Re. Your message: using URL shorteners is probably a bad idea, for several > reasons: They force users to move through middlemen they don't > necessarily know about, leading to subreptitious tracking; make the web > slower; and can direct users to fake sites. They should be used only when > strictly necessary. > > This means one should try and avoid them as much as possible and only use > them when there is no other choice,for example, when there is a very little > space for characters and a full URL would take up all the space. > They can easily be included in addition to the full URLs, which are split. > As the URLs above, although split, can be easily copy and pasted into the > address bar on a browser, it is not essential in this case to use shorteners, > hence I haven't used them. > I have a hard time copying and pasting like that due to a problem with my hand and depending on that is a huge accessibility and usability problem. > I could change the line length on my email client, I suppose (at this moment > I don't know what option that would be, but I am sure it is there somewhere), > but that would make some lines of text unreadably long; so I prefer not to > touch that and leave the default. > a decent email client (such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claws_Mail which i happen to use) should not split URLs into several parts even if they exceed the message width. If it does, then it is a bug. > There are trade-offs for every decision, as you can see, and I hope you will > excuse me for using the ones I have chosen, and still help us out with the > promotion of KDE news. > I already retweeted the twitter link, but won't bother with the split urls. Regards, Shlomi -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/Summerschool-at-the-NSA/ The Knights Who Say “Ni” once said “Ni” to Chuck Norris. They are now no longer The Knights Who Say “Ni”. — http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/facts/Chuck-Norris/ Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .
