John, I didn't mean to make my 25 word message sound like I was making an issue of this. I intended it as a remark indicating surprise at observing something new. If that hurt your feelings, I apologize; hurting your feelings was not my intent.
I use Netscape 4.78 (pretty close to the latest version for linux, if not actually the latest) and two things apparently caused this to occur on my screen, as it did again just now when I rechecked that message. What I observe is a pop-up ad for "go take a dip .com" (their format!) that invites me to take a chance at winning free pool chemicals. The two things that worked together to make this happen on my browser are: 1. I have "view attachments inline" selected. 2. You sent your message in html format. So, in addition to receiving the text version, I received the html version also (thus roughly tripling the size of your message). The last line of the html portion in that message of yours (but not in the plain text portion) is " ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01C1EF5F.3B852E40--" This is a link to open that pop-up ad (including the cookie it tries to plant, but which I rejected). I'll bet that you didn't even know you sent that. (By the way, I see the same thing when I read this message via Kmail and Konqueror, too, probably due to similar settings here and of course the tag line shown above.) So, no, my first message was not intended to make this an issue. If you had set your mail composer to send messages only in plain text then your message size would have been considerably shorter and you would not have inadvertantly sent along a link that even you did not realize was there. This is the "trash" that several of us have refered to before when we asked you to send plain-text messages. So, the ad and the cookie planting attempt are due to your refusal to send in plain text only. Of course, I could clear that "view attachments inline" on my browser and not be assaulted by the trash you send. It still downloads onto my disk, I just don't have to see it. Apparently you have your settings set so that you don't see the trash you send. There, now you and I have made this an issue. In case I haven't mentioned it for awhile, I see nothing beneficial that formatting outgoing messages in html provides. The colored backgrounds, the funky fonts, the weird effects, and so forth are all just show-off glitza adding nothing intelligent to the contents, in my opinion. Of course, you're entitled to your own opinion and you've expressed it here before. But now you know about some of the trash that you have been sending unwittingly due to your firm beliefs. Come to think of it, I've never heard you comment on the benefit that sending in html format affords you. Yes, I read the story you sent. A woman in a 10 km race held back to save her reserve energy when she saw a sign that she took to be the 4 km marker, but it turned out to be the 4 mile split. So, after traveling all the way from Africa for the race, she lost it and a contributing factor was our mixed usage of units. This was in the Sports section of the Cleveland Plain Dealer on April 29. Jim kilopascal wrote: > > 2002-05-04 > > Come to think of it, I didn't get any pop-up when I clicked on the return > posting. It must have been something unique to the program Jim was using > that caused it to open the pop-up. > > But, anyways, I thought it was very petty to make an issue about it and not > say one thing about the contents of the article that I was providing the > link for. I thought it was in the same context of the loss of the Mars > Space probe. But, I guess I was wrong. > > John > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Barbara and/or Bill Hooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, 2002-05-04 13:54 > Subject: Re: [USMA:19884] Re: Cleveland Marathon & 10 km - > English/metricerror costs woman a chance to win > > > on 5/3/2002 11:50 PM, kilopascal at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Don't ask me how that happened? I did it just like you guys want, with > a > > > clickable link. > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "James R. Frysinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >> This is a new one for you, John. This time your message included a > > >> pop-up ad for cleveland.com/careers. Ads on the USMA mail list? > > > > For your information, John, I did not get an "ad" for Cleveland Careers on > > my system. > > > > Regards, Bill Hooper > > retired physics professor, Florida, USA > > > > -------------------------------------- > > "Simplification" begins with "SI" > > -------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > -- Metric Methods(SM) "Don't be late to metricate!" James R. Frysinger, CAMS http://www.metricmethods.com/ 10 Captiva Row e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Charleston, SC 29407 phone/FAX: 843.225.6789
