[lovely] ...ain't they?

On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:52:25 GMT, Dave Cohen wrote:

It is a link, but not a clickable one (in Free Agent, anyway).
It's just a pic of three ladies, nothing special, and absolutely no
explanation of why it was posted at all.

It was posted because, . . . , well I don't know. Just because.
It's a clickable link for non-Free Agent but I didn't bite.

It's not, the poster proceeded the http part with a bunch of dots.

And as a Thunderbird user, exactly how would you know what is and
what isn't clickable using Agent? I didn't say that it's a generic
link that would be recognized by all newsreaders, just the
"non-Free" version of Agent that I use. If I double click it, it
will be passed for opening by my default internet browser. If I
right click it, a menu pops up asking if I want to:

Launch URL
Add URL to favorites
Add URL to addresses
Select/Copy URL
Jump to message URL

As you can see, sometimes Agent may need some guidance at to what
type of URL it will be dealing with, but in this case, with the
leading "http://", a double click will immediately launch it,
without the prompt that's usually seen when clicking on other types
of URL, such as newsgroup message IDs. FWIW, most of those usually
succeed in fetching the ng article, except for those whose source is
googlegroups.com, which I don't find to be much of a drawback.

BTW, Agent uses color highlighting to also indicate quoting
levels, (at least the way I've configured it), alternating between
two colors to indicate even and odd levels. Due to a quirk in the
way it has been implemented (aka, a bug), URLs are recognized as
such only when the quote level applies the same color that is also
used to indicate URLs, so

....http://www.pbase.com/abulafia/image/67357620/large [is recognized]
and
....http://www.pbase.com/abulafia/image/67357620/large [is not recognized]
and
....http://www.pbase.com/abulafia/image/67357620/large [is recognized]
and
....http://www.pbase.com/abulafia/image/67357620/large [is not recognized]

etc., as a URL

BTW (again), to verify this I needed to download some of the
earlier messages in this thread, so I double-clicked on the
newsgroup message IDs contained in the "References:" portion of some
of the article headers. Instead of blindly downloading them, Agent
first did a quick search and immediately displayed them, since it
found that they were still available in its Trash folder, and I then
UnDeleted them.

Helen wrote:
"John Mander" wrote in message
...
....http://www.pbase.com/abulafia/image/67357620/large

A post with an unexplained link, which isn't even a link; all this means
that I will never know whether they are lovely or not.

My sentiments exactly. Life is much too short to chase potential spam
--
Bill

Bill K wrote:
Helen wrote:
"John Mander" wrote in message
...
....http://www.pbase.com/abulafia/image/67357620/large

A post with an unexplained link, which isn't even a link; all this
means that I will never know whether they are lovely or not.

My sentiments exactly. Life is much too short to chase potential spam

On the other hand... Perhaps life is similarly too short to spend time
posting one's worries about whether a post MIGHT be spam...when one click
will confirm one way or the other.



--
Images (Plus Snaps & Grabs) by Mark² at:
www.pbase.com/markuson

On 26 Sep 2006 12:49:20 -0700, "Bill K" wrote:


Helen wrote:
"John Mander" wrote in message
...
....http://www.pbase.com/abulafia/image/67357620/large

A post with an unexplained link, which isn't even a link; all this means
that I will never know whether they are lovely or not.

My sentiments exactly. Life is much too short to chase potential spam

It's obviously a Pbase image.
--
Bill Funk
replace "g" with "a"

On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 17:08:02 GMT, "Amanda Brown"
wrote:

On 25-Sep-2006, "Sid" wrote:

Marks out of 10, I'd give them one!

They certainly don't make me wish I was lesbian.

So this cowbly enters a bar, and orders a drink.
A pretty girl comes in, and sits next to him. She looks the cowboy
over, and says, "Are you a real cowboy?"
He says, "I sure am. Every day, all day, I think about cows. Say,
would you like to go to dinner with a real cowboy?"
She says, "No thanks, I'm a lesbian."
He says, "What's a lesbian?"
She says, "Every day, all day, I think about girls."
The cowboy thinks on this for a while. Then another pretty girl comes
into the bar, and sits on the other side of the cowboy.
She says, "Say, are you a real cowboy?"
The cowboy responds, "I used to think so, but I just found out I'm a
lesbian."
--
Bill Funk
replace "g" with "a"

ASAAR wrote:

On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:52:25 GMT, Dave Cohen wrote:

It is a link, but not a clickable one (in Free Agent, anyway).
It's just a pic of three ladies, nothing special, and absolutely no
explanation of why it was posted at all.

It was posted because, . . . , well I don't know. Just because.
It's a clickable link for non-Free Agent but I didn't bite.

It's not, the poster proceeded the http part with a bunch of dots.

And as a Thunderbird user, exactly how would you know what is and
what isn't clickable using Agent? I didn't say that it's a generic
link that would be recognized by all newsreaders, just the
"non-Free" version of Agent that I use.

edited, for brevity

Hello, ASAAR:

It was quite clickable, in Netscape Communicator 4.8. Can't understand
what this "proceeded the http part with a bunch of dots" stuff is all
about, as the URL looked all right, to me.


Cordially,
John Turco

On 29 Sep 2006 05:06:17 EDT, John Turco wrote:

ASAAR wrote:

On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:52:25 GMT, Dave Cohen wrote:

It is a link, but not a clickable one (in Free Agent, anyway).
It's just a pic of three ladies, nothing special, and absolutely no
explanation of why it was posted at all.

It was posted because, . . . , well I don't know. Just because.
It's a clickable link for non-Free Agent but I didn't bite.

It's not, the poster proceeded the http part with a bunch of dots.

And as a Thunderbird user, exactly how would you know what is and
what isn't clickable using Agent? I didn't say that it's a generic
link that would be recognized by all newsreaders, just the
"non-Free" version of Agent that I use.

edited, for brevity

Hello, ASAAR:

It was quite clickable, in Netscape Communicator 4.8. Can't understand
what this "proceeded the http part with a bunch of dots" stuff is all
about, as the URL looked all right, to me.

As I pointed out in my post, Free Agent doesn't show the link as
clickable, and indeed, it isn't.
It's the dots; they are seen as part of the 'word', and thus thje
'word' isn't parsable as a link. In Free Agent.


Cordially,
John Turco
--
Bill Funk
replace "g" with "a"