George, I use Jaguar, 10.2.8 on an iMac, and your hyperlink is a different color than the rest of your text. On my Mail (the one with the stamp and eagle icon) I can click it and it is active. It works fine for me. Takes me right to the web page. Mike
On Saturday, January 31, 2004, at 09:02 PM, Marta Edie wrote: > George, I am using Mac OSX 10.2.8 on my iMac, and, while not getting > a clickable hyperlink, after highlighting it, I can pull it to my > desktop and then it clicks and brings , here, The New York Times > website. When I pulled on the link ( it has to be highlighted, then my > cursor turns into what looks like a small typed page and on my > desktop it sits then as a webloc - has an icon like an @ with the http > underneath. > It double clicks nicely. Beside the icon it says in this case > :www.nytimes.com/2004/01/opinion/31SAT1.html I also use Apple's mail > program. The accompanying article came through in HTML, too. > Marta > On Saturday, Jan 31, 2004, at 20:18 America/New_York, George H. Yankey > wrote: > >> David, your hyperlink is not active on my EMac. I am using Mac OS >> 10.2.8 and my Email program is Mail. >> george Yankey >> On Saturday, January 31, 2004, at 05:35 PM, David Dudine wrote: >> >>> From reading the posts here and responses on one Mac users' website, >>> and from a fruitful conversation with the technician at my internet >>> provider, I have concluded that there is nothing wrong with the >>> hyperlinks that I am sending. ?The problem must be with the email >>> programs of certain recipients. ?But, I'm not positive. >>> >>> I am sending this message in HTML, and copying a formatted article >>> and a hyperlink. ?If any of you find that the hyperlink is not >>> active or the message and article are in plain text, would you >>> please let me know? ?If more than a few replies appear on the >>> digest, I will begin to think that I do have a problem ?Thanks. >>> >>> Oh, I'm not sure if the formatted article will be sent through the >>> list's server, but I know that hyperlinks do come to me as blue, >>> underlined and active. >>> >>> David Dudine >>> >>> >>> >>> http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/31/opinion/31SAT1.html >>> TODAY'S EDITORIALS >>> >>> How to Hack an Election >>> >>> >>> Published: January 31, 2004 >>> >>> >>> Concerned citizens have been warning that new electronic voting >>> technology being rolled out nationwide can be used to steal >>> elections. Now there is proof. When the State of Maryland hired a >>> computer security firm to test its new machines, these paid hackers >>> had little trouble casting multiple votes and taking over the >>> machines' vote-recording mechanisms. The Maryland study shows >>> convincingly that more security is needed for electronic voting, >>> starting with voter-verified paper trails. >>> >>> When Maryland decided to buy 16,000 AccuVote-TS voting machines, >>> there was considerable opposition. Critics charged that the new >>> touch-screen machines, which do not create a paper record of votes >>> cast, were vulnerable to vote theft. The state commissioned a staged >>> attack on the machines, in which computer-security experts would try >>> to foil the safeguards and interfere with an election. >>> >>> They were disturbingly successful. It was an "easy matter," they >>> reported, to reprogram the access cards used by voters and vote >>> multiple times. They were able to attach a keyboard to a voting >>> terminal and change its vote count. And by exploiting a software >>> flaw and using a modem, they were able to change votes from a remote >>> location. >>> >>> Critics of new voting technology are often accused of being >>> alarmist, but this state-sponsored study contains vulnerabilities >>> that seem almost too bad to be true. Maryland's 16,000 machines all >>> have identical locks on two sensitive mechanisms, which can be >>> opened by any one of 32,000 keys. The security team had no trouble >>> making duplicates of the keys at local hardware stores, although >>> that proved unnecessary since one team member picked the lock in >>> "approximately 10 seconds." >>> >>> Diebold, the machines' manufacturer, rushed to issue a >>> self-congratulatory press release with the headline "Maryland >>> Security Study Validates Diebold Election Systems Equipment for >>> March Primary." The study's authors were shocked to see their >>> findings spun so positively. Their report said that if flaws they >>> identified were fixed, the machines could be used in Maryland's >>> March 2 primary. But in the long run, they said, an extensive >>> overhaul of the machines and at least a limited paper trail are >>> necessary. >>> >>> The Maryland study confirms concerns about electronic voting that >>> are rapidly accumulating from actual elections. In Boone County, >>> Ind., last fall, in a particularly colorful example of >>> unreliability, an electronic system initially recorded more than >>> 144,000 votes in an election with fewer than 19,000 registered >>> voters, County Clerk Lisa Garofolo said. Given the growing body of >>> evidence, it is clear that electronic voting machines cannot be >>> trusted until more safeguards are in place. >>> > Marta -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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