On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 11:40:50 -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote: > If you have been reading the papers, you would understand what I'm > doing.
That is the second time, at least, that you have made a comment like that. Understand that most people are not going to follow links to find out whether or not they are interested in what you have to say. If you can't give a brief explanation of what you are doing in your email or news post, many people aren't going to read on. Perhaps they intend to but are too busy, or they have email access but web access is restricted, or they've already got 200 tabs open in their browser and don't want any more (I'm not exaggerating, I know people like that). People use email because it is a "push" technology -- you don't have to go out and look for information, it gets pushed into your inbox. Clicking on links is a "pull" technology -- you have to make the explicit decision to click the link, open a browser, go out to the Internet and read who knows what. That requires a different frame of mind. Expect to lose some of your audience every time you require them to follow a link. And *especially* so if that it a link to Google Docs, instead of an normal web page. Google Docs is, in my opinion, a nasty piece of rubbish that doesn't run on any of my browsers. As far as I'm concerned, I'd rather download a Word doc, because at least I can open that in OpenOffice or Abiword and read it. Something in Google Docs might as well be locked in a safe as far as I'm concerned. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
