Re: The uses of pseudo-links

2001-01-10 Thread Declan McCullagh
Right. Most news organizations nowadays provide some kind of "alert" service. Wired News has one that lets readers choose to be alerted by name of author or keyword: http://www.wired.alerts.com/wired/add_alert.jsp These, to buttress your point, are better mechanisms to be alerted to relevant art

Re: The uses of pseudo-links

2001-01-09 Thread Tim May
At 8:04 AM -0800 1/9/01, Ray Dillinger wrote: >On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Trei, Peter wrote: > >>[Jim: It's ok that you have no problem with >>your ineffective methods of giving pointers >>to articles, but your wasting your own and >>other's time - there's simply no reason for >>people to follow your li

The uses of pseudo-links

2001-01-09 Thread Ray Dillinger
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Trei, Peter wrote: >[Jim: It's ok that you have no problem with >your ineffective methods of giving pointers >to articles, but your wasting your own and >other's time - there's simply no reason for >people to follow your links, since they are >generally useless] Actually, n