Please pardon my ignorance. I honestly can't recall having seen
your post from last October, but surely the fact that I didn't
know to use brackets indicates a serious deficiency on my part.
Perhaps I'll rejoin the rest of the lurkers who feel too
intimidated to participate.
Julie Montgomery
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Hake [mailto:rrhake@EARTHLINK.NET]
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 11:26 AM
To: PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu
Subject: Re: Spelling and Grammar in our e-mails
In her Phys-L post of 10 Mar 2003 07:04:03-0600 of the above title,
Julie Montgomery wrote:
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
". . . . there was a very interesting article on CNN.com a few days
ago about an extreme example of this problem. Check it out at:
Suggestion #9 of my ignored "13 Posting Suggestion" is (slightly edited):
"9. Give URL's as <http://www......> (NOTE THE ANGLE BRACKETS) so
that they will USUALLY survive line breaks and are hot-linked [note
that <www.....> is NOT hot-linked]. Check all URL's (by clicking on
them) in your message to be sure they work."
Thus Julie might better have written:
M'M'M'M'M'M'M'M'M'M'M'M'M'M'M'M'M'M'M'M'
". . . . there was a very interesting article on
<http://www.cnn.com/> a few days ago about an extreme example of
this problem. Check it out at:
and thereby saved Herb Gottlieb and probably many others some frustration.
Richard Hake from Woodland Hills [where they ALWAYS place angle
brackets <. . . . > around URL's]
Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
24245 Hatteras Street, Woodland Hills, CA 91367
<rrhake@earthlink.net>
<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake>
<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~sdi>