Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 97, Issue 111

[Patrick Karl]

Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 10:44:38 +0100
> From: Mike Solomon<address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Lily Dances -- lilypond-user Digest, Vol 97, Issue 111
> To: Father Gordon Gilbert<address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Message-ID:<address@hidden>
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> Dear Gordon,
>
> The links in this posting are in fact attached files that should be downloaded 
> to your local machine, not websites on the Internet.  If you look in the folder 
> in which attachments are saved on your machine, you should be able to find and 
> open them.
I have this same problem whether I am reading the Digest with the Mac 
OSX Mail client or with Firefox on Windows Vista.  I have no idea what 
you're talking about when you refer to "...the folder in which 
attachments are saved on your machine".  Most normal emails that contain 
links to files on the Internet don't behave in the manner you indicate.

I have to say it:  what kind of cockamamie scheme is this?  The files we 
are talking about actually live in the Internet on the lists.gnu.org 
server.  And in some cases they might be so large that I wouldn't want 
them to be routinely downloaded onto my machine.  Why can't the actual, 
correct URLs be used in the Digest rather than these fictitious ones?