[stylist] Question for Peter

Tue Jan 24 03:18:35 UTC 2012

Hello Donna and everyone,

    This may have more to do with the list server instead of your e-mail 
clients. You may be sending message to the list in HTML but the list server 
may be posting them as plain text. This has never been a problem for me as I 
just copy the URLS to the clipboard, paste them in to the "Run" dialogue box 
and they open in my Web browser of choice. David Andrews would need to look 
at this issue on his end to determine if it's the way messages are posted to 
the list that causes the URLS not to be active links.

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 5:33 PM
Subject: Re: [stylist] Question for Peter

Peter,
I checked my own e-mail program under tools/options/format and it is set to
send e-mails as html. I'm guessing Robert's is as well. Robert is a case in
point where the message he sends to me offlist are in html, but those on the
list are text. Do you know of any other settings we should check? For
instance, is there some setting that overrides the standard preference for
html when it comes to certain addresses? This still doesn't make sense to
me.

The URLs I post are usually too long for one line and they're getting a line
break inserted in them. What this does is, even when someone does try to
copy the link to the clipboard, they don't get the whole thing.
Donna

-----Original Message-----
From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Peter Donahue
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 2:26 PM
To: Writer's Division Mailing List
Subject: Re: [stylist] Question for Peter

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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