[thelist] RE: link spam a new spam

Greg Holmes greg.holmes at gmail.com
Fri Nov 19 07:24:30 CST 2004


Steven Streight (though his email thinks that he is
ANDREA STREIGHT) wrote:

>I see a blue underlined hypertext link. When I hover my
>cursor over it, lo and behold, the link destination is
>totally unexpected, and basically undesirable. The
>destination has nothing to do with the article or what I'm
>researching.

>So the blue underlined hypertext link is a blatant
>violation of user expectations and the philosophy of
>linking in general.

>The link is deceptive, because an entity (person, URL,
>organization, fact) is mentioned in a sentence, so I
>assume that the hypertext link will lead to information
>related to the topic of the article and the sentence.
>WRONG!

I don't see any inline links in the article at all.
But then, I'm using Mozilla.  

Greg Holmes


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