On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 5:01 AM, DougT <[email protected]> wrote: > Mike, have you noticed that Google is starting to append www.google.com > to the front of some embedded web page addresses? When you click on > the embedded link you get a Page Not Found type thing so you have to > remove that appendage from the address to get to the page. That is > what happens when the embedded link to that model site in the > forwarded message is clicked. It gets to be quite annoying and some > people are thrown completely off by it and think they cannot get to > the web page. Why Google is starting to be like this is beyond > comprehension. It seems that for the last year or so Google is > determined to chase people away with some of their decisions like > signing people up to some of their tracking apps without asking and > putting annoying nag ads for some of their services on the Google home > page, among other things.
Doug, Thank you for pointing this out; it seems to be happening only from within the Google Groups "Discussion" archives and not in e-mailed posts. I've reported it to Google Groups, but in the meantime you can work around the problem by copying the link text and pasting it into your Web browser's address bar. -- Mike Hungerford http://www.chthulhu.com/ {Insert witticism here.} -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/papermodels?hl=en.
