[stylist] Question for Peter

[David Andrews]

I checked and the list is not configured to convert html to plain text.

Dave

At 09:18 PM 1/23/2012, you wrote:
>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
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>----- 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
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>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.
>
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>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.
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>Not everyone seems to have the problem, so that confuses me as well.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Donna
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