RANT: I hate MAILTO: links that don't give warning

[pkananen]

5:00 in the morning. Research paper. I hate MAILTO links that don't tell you what they are. In fact, I hate all MAILTO links. That is all.

 

[Xionide]

More detail.

 

[pkananen]

um, they suck because they load up outlook, which takes 15 seconds, then when you close outlooks it displays a stupid dialog box asking you to wait while it exits.

research paper is on bioinformatics -> secondary protein stucture predicted through neural networks.

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

Tools -> Options -> Programs

And set Hotmail as default. Especially if you do not have a Hotmail account.

 

[DivideBYZero]

It's not MAILTO that sucks, it's your mail client.

 

[EyeMWing]

When you click on a link that is someone's name on a page entitled "Staff email addresses", you should expect a mailto link, k?

I can't even begin to enumerate the asinine complaints that I've gotten about exactly that.

 

[chuckywang]

Originally posted by: pkananen
um, they suck because they load up outlook, which takes 15 seconds, then when you close outlooks it displays a stupid dialog box asking you to wait while it exits.

research paper is on bioinformatics -> secondary protein stucture predicted through neural networks.

FASTA?

 

[Bassyhead]

Originally posted by: DivideBYZero
It's not MAILTO that sucks, it's your mail client.

yup

 

[mcvickj]

1. Right click on link
2. Copy Link Location
3. Paste in your favorite text editor to see e-mail address
4. .......
5. Profit!!

 

[Modeps]

I havent gotten a chance to say this in a long time, thank you for letting me:

Your complaint sucks.®