And I got it in my email, so all is well with the world… iT
On 21 Nov 2013, at 12:22 pm, Marghanita da Cruz <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> > > > -- > Marghanita da Cruz > Ramin Communications Pty Ltd > http://ramin.com.au/ > Phone:(+61)0414-869202 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Link mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
