You didn't send the address to me. And anyone who
happens across this post in the future
would also be left out of the loop.
That's a failing of some of the Usenet nodes that carry
comp.lang.c. You want to complain about it to someone,
complain to them.
Exactly. And it will be mangled by NUAs that word-wrap it
in quotations, mangled in Usenet gateways, mangled in
archives of Usenet postings accessible from the WWW, and
mangled by programs that "helpfully" do things like
replacing slashes, minus signs, and other characters in
URL-like text with various kinds of quoting sequences.
You should see some of the broken incoming links that
Google Webmaster Tools reports pointing to my WWW pages.
And those are just the ones where the breakage has
occurred far enough into the URL to miss the domain names
and account names.
Ask yourself this: Do we give out hyperlinks with the
intention that people are able to follow them and read
what is hyperlinked to, or just to decorate postings?
Only in the latter case does it not matter that people
reading the post, and quotes of the post, and copies of
the post on WWW sites, will get something mangled and
unusable.
And that's even discounting all of the
but-that-hyperlink-doesn't-work-for-me timewasting that
occurs.
You've wasted far more time in this long justification
for your refusal to post links in Usenet posts, [...]
You're being foolish. I post plenty of hyperlinks in
Usenet posts. I posted one just two hours ago in another
newsgroup. What I don't do is any of the broken,
counterproductive, and wasteful things that you want
people to do.
several simple and reliable methods being suggested.
The only reliable method is hyperlinks as hypertext.
Nothing else works. The fact that you explain that
they each don't work in the very list of supposedly
"reliable" methods that you've just given, should be
telling you something. Read what you are actually
writing as you write it, and think.
Thanks, but I didn't really expect that a FAQ on
DOS EOF markers would be related to Whatever the
Hell CIS URLs are, so I did not look at the rest
of that site. From the snarky tone of your reply
.... that is entirely in your imagination, given
that the above is a simple straightforward set
of instructions and nothing more ...
I suspect now that when you say "Frequently Given
Answer" that you are in fact referring to your
website, not a generic "Frequently given answer",
if so, WHY NOT SAY SO?
Your question has a falsehood as its premise.
[...] it does seem that you make giving a URL into
a needlessly dramatic and complex affair.
Actually, it isn't. But other people do. As I
said, I've been handing out hyperlinks for years,
and the ways that people find, as you here do, of
reacting stupidly to being helped, or to being
given just simple straightforward instructions,
are many and varied. That doesn't make such
reactions anyone's fault, or anyone's problem,
but their own. This "timewasting discussion" that
you think that to be someone else's fault resulted
from your asking questions in the first place,
for example.
Are you actually trying to be helpful, or
looking for an opportunity to sneer at people
for not knowing how to decipher your references?
You're the only one sneering here. Indeed, you're
the only one who is apparently posting in order to
set things up so that when people answer your
questions you immediately become combative.
