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--- On Sun, 10/24/10, Gary LaPook  wrote:

> From: Gary LaPook 
> Subject: [NavList] Re: (ADMIN) Linked files vs Attached files, and a scam
> To: NavList@fer3.com
> Date: Sunday, October 24, 2010, 11:27 PM

> But, when I read the email message using Firefox to access my email 
> account the link does come up! So this shows that the link information 
> must actually be contained in the message so why does it not come up in 
> three out four message readers?

If I had to take a guess, it would be that the NavList website is only displaying 
the URL itself (as text) and not encoding it into a clickable link. Don't 
know if that's anything that Frank has any control over, or not - but reading 
the list via e-mail is one solution that seems to work.

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GregR


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GregR


--- On Sun, 10/24/10, Gary LaPook  wrote:

> From: Gary LaPook 
> Subject: [NavList] Re: (ADMIN) Linked files vs Attached files, and a scam
> To: NavList@fer3.com
> Date: Sunday, October 24, 2010, 11:27 PM
> This is really confusing. I did
> another test using this message:
> 
> http://www.fer3.com/arc/m2.aspx?i=114164
> 
> There is a URL near the beginning of the message 
(http://gagocoutinho.wordpress.com) that does not show
> as a link in Firefox or in Internet Explorer but comes up as
> a link when reading my email with Firefox, just like with
> the previous test. But now, contrary to the first test, it
> does come up as a link in Thunderbird!
> 
> Also, at the bottom of the message there is a link to the
> file I had attached and this comes up as a link in both
> Firefox and Internet Explorer so, in the same message, on
> URL comes up as a link and on doesn't!
> 
> gl
> 
> On 10/24/2010 10:17 PM, Greg R. wrote:
> >> Don't be so pompous.� Are you paying for the
> bandwidth or something?
> >> I don't like your tone.
> > 
> > And I really don't care for yours either, so I guess
> that makes us even, huh?
> > 
> > You've obviously never moderated an Internet group or
> mailing list, or you would never be so presumptuous to make
> a statement like that. Frank gives up a lot of his own free
> time to make this list available to anyone who's interest
> (at no charge, and no financial gain to himself either), so
> please show a little more respect for his efforts.
> > 
> >> It is NOT easy to use the linked files.You have to
> put that up into the
> >> heading with cut and paste - a damned nuisance...
> and as you say some
> >> internet users might not know how to do that.
> > 
> > What century are you living in? Don't know what e-mail
> program you're using, but I don't know of anything that was
> created in the last 20 years (or longer..) that won't let
> you click on a link enclosed in an e-mail. Perhaps you
> should take a look in the mirror before accusing others of
> making things "difficult".
> > 
> > -- GregR
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On 10/24/2010 1:36:51 PM, Douglas Denny (douglas.denny@btopenworld.com)
> wrote:
> >> Frank wrote:
> >> 
> >> "Please, NEVER do this again. First of all, those
> files have no relevance to NavList (so you could have shared
> them individually). Second, "linked
> >> files" are easily accessible."
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Don't be so pompous.� Are you paying for the
> bandwidth or something?
> >> I don't like your tone.
> >> 
> >> It is NOT easy to use the linked files.You have to
> put that up into the
> >> heading with cut and paste - a damned nuisance..
> and as you say some
> >> internet users might not know how to do that.
> >> 
> >> And why have the different methods of attachment
> of pictures� or linkage
> >> of files anyway? They should all be attached so
> all you have to do is click
> >> onto the bottom reference and you are there.
> >> 
> >> If I make a mistake and put pictures on the
> 'linkage' instead of an
> >> 'attachment' I shall re-send as I did . Make it
> not possible to do it if
> >> you don't like it.
> >> 
> >> Douglas Denny.
> >> Chichester. England.
> >>
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