[stylist] Question for Peter

[Peter Donahue]

Hello Donna and everyone,

    It's most likely because the e-mail messages were sent as text documents 
hence the links are not live. If they were sent as HTML documents the links 
should work. I have observed this myself. Whenever I encounter a seemingly 
live link that doesn't work I select it, copy the link URL to the clipboard, 
hit control+R to bring up the "Run" dialogue box, enter the link URL, and 
hit enter. The URL then opens up to the site referred to in the link 
embedded in the e-mail message. Hope this work-around will give you a way to 
activate links when they fail to open when selected from within an e-mail 
message.

Peter Donahue


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donna Hill" <penatwork at epix.net>
To: "Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 10:46 AM
Subject: [stylist] Question for Peter


Hi Peter,

Lately, I've noticed that people including myself are having trouble going
to links posted to the Stylist list. For instance, today, I tried clicking
on Cheryl's blog and, although the link seemed live to Jaws, it didn't go
anywhere. Then, I tried entering on one of the standard links at the bottom
of all Stylist e-mails -- in this case, it was in Robert's post -- and again
I got nowhere. People have mentioned that they can't get to my articles when
I post those links, and that a line break seems to have been inserted.



I notice that the e-mail is text only, and to the best of my knowledge,
there are never any live links in .txt files. Did our list recently change?
I checked my other e-mails, like the one Robert sent out to the membership
which did not go through the list about the monthly meeting. This was an
html document, though his message to the llist was .txt.



Anyway, wondering if you know what's going on. We all often post links, and
it would be better if we could enter on them directly rather than copying
them to another document and deleting the line breaks that show up in longer
URLs.



Not everyone seems to have the problem, so that confuses me as well.

Thanks,

Donna













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