So, you chose to email us about it! Marghanita Robin Whittle wrote: > This has been a pet peeve of mine for some time. Today I found the > trifecta - a site which uses the term "email" on its own for three > separate concepts: > > 1 - Email address. > > 2 - Email account accessed via website or desktop/cell-phone/tablet > client software. > > 3 - Email message. > > The page http://www.photonicsonline.com/hub/bucket/homelatestheadlines > invites me to: > > "Get the latest news, product offerings and industry updates > delivered to your in-box. Enter your email. [1]" > > After I entered my email address a window popped up with: > > "Thanks for signing up for the Photonics Online newsletter! You > need to confirm your subscription before you'll start receiving > the newsletter. To do so: > > Check your email [2] for a message from Photonics Online. > Click the confirmation link in that email [3]. > If you don't see the email [3] in about 10 minutes, please > check your spam filter. > > Add [email protected] to your list of "safe senders" > in your email program. [Now they are being specific, but they > should use "email account" whether or not it is accessed by a > a program on a PC, tablet or whatever.] Otherwise, the > newsletter might end up in your spam folder instead of your inbox. > > Once you do that, you'll receive the newsletter the next time it > is published." > > Their message did fall foul of my (not recently updated) Spamassassin > system and was dumped into "Spam Marginal", due to it containing an > image linked from a remote website and being HTML only. There was no > further use of "email", just the perfectly apt term "message". > > Despite being HTML, the link address was not a link - I had to copy and > paste it into a browser window. > > Whoever created this system seemed to think that just having > "http://www.xxxx . . ." in an email message would transform it into a > clickable link. Email systems tend to do that for plain text messages, > but not (as far as I know) for HTML messages. Maybe that is changing > now that everyone and their gnat is using cellphones and the like for > email communications, with what I assume are inherent difficulties doing > things like copy and paste to a browser window. > > - Robin http://www.firstpr.com.au > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Link mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link >
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