On Mon, 9 Aug 2010, Tony Duell wrote:
If this habit of giving a URL as an asnwer with no
explanation continues,
I am going to start answering questions with things like 'third page of
the 7th notebook on the top shelf in my workshop'...
Well it was that or a Let Me Google That For You link.
I don't see why a comment of the form 'It's a documentary abotu the
heistory of text adventures, for more information see <URL>' is impossible.
Well frankly, if I had any idea that you'd go Old Man McClusky on me while
waving your cane in my face and raving about these damn kids, I just may
have. Unfortunately I constantly forget that you like to party like it's
1979.
If that notebook has been scanned and is available via a URL equivalent to
its physical location, I'd be all for it. Otherwise, quit whining.
The point is that not all of us read e-mail on line, not all of us have a
web browser (or more specifically a graphical web browser) on the machine
we use to read mail (or in my case on any of my machines). Which means to
follow such a URL involves almost as much work as you getting to see one
of my workshop notebooks. And I want to know if that effort is worthwhile.
I use Alpine to read email (text only) and have been known to use Lynx
(text only browser) on occasion. Both of which are likely available if
you're using pretty much any flavor of Unix, VMS, Linux or DOS.
Because we've pretty much already defined that I'm an asshole, it should
be added that I'm not terribly understanding of peoples' self-configured
difficulty. You could easily build a machine that does all these
new-fangled and modern webby things and yet you grump at ME because you
have no way to copy & paste a url into any kind of browser.
Yes, I like the trailing edge of computing, but you fell off of it and the
guy pushing the stone wheelbarrow behind us is going to grind you to paste
if you don't catch up. :)
g.
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