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Re: A challenge for the "advocates"

From Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: A challenge for the "advocates"
Date 2015-09-04 09:47 -0700
Message-ID <D20F193E.59EF0%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> (permalink)
References <D20B61D9.59985%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> <msaog2$3o6$1@news.albasani.net> <D20E3DFB.59E3F%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> <msbhgg$vk2$1@news.albasani.net> <slrnmujh46.4i7.jedi@nomad.mishnet>

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On 9/4/15, 9:19 AM, in article slrnmujh46.4i7.jedi@nomad.mishnet, "JEDIDIAH"
<jedi@nomad.mishnet> wrote:

> On 2015-09-04, Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> wrote:
>> Snit wrote:
>> 
>>> On 9/3/15, 5:26 PM, in article msaog2$3o6$1@news.albasani.net, "Nobody"
>>> <nobody@invalid.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Snit wrote:
>>>> 
> 
> [deletia]
> 
>>>> I for one would simply selcect "Email Link" from the browser menu, then
>>>> add any notes I had to the resulting email.
>>> 
>>> This does not offer the user an easy to print PDF where the note is already
>>> there.
>> 
>> The user doesn't need a PDF, just a link to the recipe, and if you want
>> to tell the person you subsituted coconut oil for butter, it can be said
>> in the email.  Your way is non-productive, inefficient, and error-prone.
>> 
>>> I do this with more than recipes, I send art projects and lesson
>>> plans and more where I sometimes want to put notes ON the PDF. And I do this
>>> a lot for students sending me screenshots and the like.
>> 
>> You're moving the goalposts.
>> 
>>> But, sure, if you have a system where doing this is not as easy you are
>>> likely to send the user a lower quality result, as you describe.
>> 
>> Linking the user to the original material is not a "lower quality
>> result."
>> 
>>> There are times when a simple link is fine...
>> 
>> As with the example as presented by you.
>> 
>>> but seems you are pretty much limited to
>>> that with your work flow.
>> 
>> Nonsense.
>> 
>>> On OS X I just drag the proxy icon to the Mail icon. Simple drag and drop.
>> 
>> Wasted effort.   Wasted time.
>> 
>>> There is also a "Share" menu where I can send to mail, Facebook, Messages,
>>> and more.
>> 
>> Justr send the person a link to the recipe.  Add any notes to the
>> resulting email.   Rapid, reliable, secure.
> 
>     ...and again, the problem with any "blind print" option is that you don't
> know what layout tweaks and print options are appropriate. This is especially
> true if you are talking about someone else entirely.
> 
>     Recipes in particular even have different formating options available for
> printing for this very reason. Different people have different preferences.

Right. So? Pick the preferences you want for the file. I am fine with that.


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A challenge for the "advocates" Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-09-01 14:08 -0700
  Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2015-09-01 23:42 +0200
    Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2015-09-01 15:32 -0700
    Re: A challenge for the "advocates" vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2015-09-02 08:20 +0000
      Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-09-02 04:52 -0700
      Re: A challenge for the "advocates" ronb <ronbNOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2015-09-02 12:49 +0000
        Re: A challenge for the "advocates" chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2015-09-02 08:04 -0500
        Re: A challenge for the "advocates" "A.M" <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-09-02 10:36 -0400
          Re: A challenge for the "advocates" owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-09-02 15:01 +0000
            Re: A challenge for the "advocates" owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-09-02 15:29 +0000
              Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2015-09-02 08:48 -0700
          Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2015-09-02 13:49 -0700
            Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2015-09-02 17:38 -0700
            Re: A challenge for the "advocates" GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> - 2015-09-02 21:58 -0600
        Re: A challenge for the "advocates" vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2015-09-02 19:41 +0000
          Re: A challenge for the "advocates" ronb <ronbNOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2015-09-02 23:41 +0000
      Re: A challenge for the "advocates" DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2015-09-03 09:27 -0400
  Snit!  Give it up, YOU degenerate. John Gohde <john.h.gohde@gmail.com> - 2015-09-01 14:43 -0700
    Re: Snit!  Give it up, YOU degenerate. vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2015-09-01 23:55 +0000
      Re: Snit!  Give it up, YOU degenerate. Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2015-09-01 18:44 -0700
  Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-09-01 14:57 -0700
    Re: A challenge for the "advocates" owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-09-01 22:39 +0000
      Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-09-01 15:44 -0700
        Re: A challenge for the "advocates" owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-09-01 23:10 +0000
      Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-09-01 15:52 -0700
  Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-09-01 18:02 -0700
    Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2015-09-02 08:13 +0200
      Re: Another Snit Circus attempt. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-09-02 04:50 -0700
  Re: A challenge for the "advocates" owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-09-02 14:56 +0000
  Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-09-04 00:26 +0000
    Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-09-04 07:33 +0000
      Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-09-04 00:44 -0700
        Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-09-05 00:51 +0000
          Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-09-04 21:01 -0500
            Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-09-05 01:03 -0500
              Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-09-05 01:52 -0500
                Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-09-05 02:23 -0500
      Re: A challenge for the "advocates" JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2015-09-04 11:19 -0500
        Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-09-04 09:47 -0700
    Re: A challenge for the "advocates" JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2015-09-04 11:15 -0500
      Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-09-04 09:49 -0700
        Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-09-04 21:08 -0500
          Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-09-05 00:54 -0500
            Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-09-05 01:54 -0500
              Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-09-05 02:23 -0500
      Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-09-04 21:06 -0500
        Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-09-05 00:57 -0500
          Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-09-05 01:56 -0500
            Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-09-05 02:24 -0500

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