On 1/30/2010 9:24 AM, M Henri Day wrote: > 2010/1/30 Programmer In Training <[email protected]> > >> On 1/30/2010 8:53 AM, M Henri Day wrote: >> <snip> >>> Lars, the link I provided in my posting above informs the reader of the >> full >>> URL of the website to which it links. In the event that you do not feel >>> competent to use it or desire not to do so for other reasons, you are >> free >>> to abstain.... >>> >>> Henri >>> >> >> Agreed, but it is silly to use a URL shortener in an email. >> > > Programmer In Training, before posting to tell us what you believe to be > «silly»,you might wish to consider that others may feel that religious > propaganda has no place in an email message sent to a list the subject of
Opinions on religion aside, it is small and in my signature. Easily ignorable (as a matter of fact, I believe in some email clients you can hide the signature if you wish). > which has nothing to do with religion. My use of a URL shortener is a result > of experience with broken email links sent to people who had difficulty > putting them together. If one dislikes the practice, one can always, as I They should get a better email client. There is no reasonable reason to be using broken clients (such as OE 6, which has a host of other faults that I used to exploit for fun on Usenet) when more modern ones are available (Outlook 2002 comes with Office XP, for example). > pointed out to Lars, abstain from clicking the link in question. But my > desire in opening this thread was to point out to fellow OOo users that ODF > has been adopted by the Danish state for official documents, which I felt > many would regard as a postive development, not to wake a discussion on > either religion or URL shorteners. It would seem that I have failed.... > > Henri > Lars makes a good point further along in the thread that they do unnecessarily separate content of page from the email message via third party. URL shoterners are good for Twitter, bad for email (also, TinyURL's expire after a certain amount of time). -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want.
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