Subj : Re: Bluetooth Keyboard
To   : Ed Vance
From : Ky Moffet
Date : Sat Aug 10 2024 19:53:00

ED VANCE wrote:
> In my earlier post I wrote that Links were underlined, I Goofed (again).
> Links are colored Blue.

Depends how your email client is configured. Mine shows email links in 
underlined AND blue. But I like all the links easy to see.

> Even the snippets where You wrote: https:// , ftp , www  ;  those showed up
> colored Blue.

So that's how your email client is set. They usually think these partial 
links are real links, because the prefix is correct.

> 
> Ages ago when I used Juno for Email I typed a URL in a message and got a reply
> that that was a clickable link.
> It surprised the guy that I sent it to that he could go to the webpage
> directly.

Juno does lightly formatted mail, as I recall. I know someone else who 
still uses it, because it's easy. Earthlink has owned Juno for about 25 
years, but they usually keep things as they are when possible.

> 
> Thanks, I will see if I can disable the Search from Address Bar option in
> Firefox.

Makes it less annoying, for sure.

> When I started using my 486 I didn't have Internet, just Dial Up Juno for
> Email.

All I had was BBS mail! But I've had Earthlink email since 1996. I only 
pay for the mailbox, not dialup anymore, but Earthlink is VERY reliable. 
Also with my hosting I have more mailboxes than I can use (2000, I 
think), but their spamtrap tends to be hyperactive.

> When I got Dial Up Internet, the ISP had Internet Explorer 3.0 on its
> software.Because I had read posts on the BBS about Netscape I downloaded a
> copy ofCommunicator, or maybe it was called Navigator.

Navigator through v3, Communicator starting with v4, if I remember 
right. v4 was a whole new codebase and not nearly as fast. The Netscape 
v3 codebase has been lost.

> 
> I noticed when saving a Bookmark in IE that each Bookmark was a individual
> fileon the HDD.

Yeah, how IE did things was kinda silly. The real stupid was how Outlook 
made every email not only a separate file, but would also fill up the 
TEMP directory with thousands of copies of the file, and every tempfile 
has to be checked every time the program does anything (which uses up 
file handles), which brought the poor PC to its knees.
I remember when cookies were individual files named so you could tell 
what they were, and some I dragged from one PC to the next for years and 
years.

> Netscape (and Firefox also) added additional Bookmarks to the file until the
> Bookmarks filled the space (Cluster?) on the HDD and then would start using
> another space on the HDD

Until the JSON format came along, Netscape Bookmarks file was always a 
single HTML file, named the obvious bookmarks.htm. You can view it in 
the browser, in fact. I used to keep a copy online (it's probably still 
there somewhere) for easy access from anywhere. You can still export it 
from the JSON file, which is just a comma-delineated datafile, but all 
in text. I have about 700 of them lurking around, because I have it set 
(somewhere) to do backups, which it does on no apparent schedule (maybe 
whenever the browser is restarted).

The killer feature for me is that the mail spool is plaintext, NOT 
databased, so in a pinch it can be read in any large-capacity text 
editor (editpad lite is good for that).

> As I wrote earlier "Everything has to be to My Specifications".  ;-)
> Just wish this Android phone would learn what "I" want it to do instead of
> misbehaving all of the time.
> Ed

LOL, we can dream.....
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