[Glastonbury] Query re KMail please

[info at wccl.co.uk]

Martin, thanks for help!

>>> You should be aware that there are many people like myself who reject out
> of hand e-mails marked-up in HTML (the most common way to hyperlink URIs)
> as being an almost certain indicator of unwanted spam; and who
> furthermore read all their mail via text console -- NOT the X gui.

Be assured I also send everything in plain text, this is how KMail has been 
set up for max security, and like you I don't want HTML mails and delete them 
unread unless they are from someone I need to be in contact with. It's a bit 
difficult to tell some people not to use html......... not all can be "told" 
or jut look totally confused .... it's easier to say nothing. Most of our 
business contacts don't use html. 

>>>
> But the mail-reader I use (Pine) *automatically* takes any URI reference
> and hot-links it, from its _plain-text representation_.
>
(*Gritting teeth...*) So that's how my son does it - all his links to me are 
interactive when I see them. He uses PINE, and re KMail usually says re any 
queries from me "Don't know, never use it" which is why I have asked you 
people. I've used PINE a bit in the early days of our server on the old green 
screen. I don't know if I have it set up on my own computer. 

I want the links to be interactive in some mails out.

> So for me, all you have to do is put in a *fully qualified* URI -- end of
> story.  At my end, I see it as a hyperlink.

OK. So I think you are saying I have to set my mail to HTML to get a 
hyperlink? I'm not doing that unless I really need to. OK.
>
> But as to what you do with these whizzy, shiny, sexy "point'n'drool"
> graphical interface things ....

Yeah, junk. Delete unread. I usually feel like mailing back (tho' I don't 
waste the time) saying "don't send me html again, it will be deleted 
immediately".

Regards
Ros

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