Mac Users: I need help, please.

[Gryffindor_Bookworm]

My most frequent e-mail recipient is griping because, he says, the links I send him via e-mail are not clickable. He's Windows, I'm Mac. (OS X, using Mail). No one else complains about this.

Thoughts??? Suggestions???

[noahmijo]

1. It shouldn't matter.....

What kind email are you using? I send links all the time to windows users and I use Entourage......

[Magrittes Pipe]

2. OS has nothing to do with your links.

Either you're copying them incorrectly, or he's doing something wrong.

It's probably one of your mail programs.

[PatGund]

3. Hmmm...

I haven't had any of my windows friends say that about my links in Mail, but I don't send them "rich text" messages, I send "plain text". Here's how you do that:

In Mail, format menu, "Make Plain Text" (Shift+command+T, if you want to use a keyboard shortcut.)

It also may be something on his machine, perhaps a anti-spyware programme or something in his mail programme to disable sent links.

[Gryffindor_Bookworm]

4. This fixed it.

Thank you!

[amber dog democrat]

5. Its not a problem on your end.

It has to do with the Windows browser most likely. I use Safari with OS/X and never had problems sending links. This has to be a microsoft bug.

[Gryffindor_Bookworm]

6. Yep.

His Windows won't receive links from me unless it's in plain-text format. I sent html mail to eight people and the links were clickable for everyone but him (including some Windows people who weren't using Outhouse Excess). ;-)

[emulatorloo]

9. Something in his settings. . .probably his "I Hate Macs" filter.

Glad you worked it out!

[Swamp Rat]

7. I agree, it's a Windoze bug.

I use UNIX (Panther) and have sent lots of links to friends who use Windoze.

[Zech Marquis]

8. defintely a Windows issue

Panther Jaguar, and soon Tiger all kick ass! My gf complains about spyware, worms, and viruses on her laptop all the time, so I said,'maybe you can use my iMac once I get an eMac..."


well, pehaps she can buy one for us, as today I'vedecided to complete my coursework this spring..at Kansai Gaidai :bounce: I really have just one general ed coure left, algebra :x BUT I can also take the Asian Studies program in japan, ten just stay in japan and keep on going form there :)

[frylock]

10. buy a PC..

I have been DYING to say that!!

[myomy]

11. Yes, but you usually get what you pay for.

Mac are easy and fun.

[frylock]

19. i would match the game box i built against a mac..

and at a fraction of the cost!!

[Gryffindor_Bookworm]

12. WHY???

So I can spend half my life installing software to protect myself against spyware and adware and have my computer freeze up 30 times a day and not do what I want it to do? So I can make Bill Gates richer? So I can lose all my files from a virus once or twice a year? So I can waste time making my computer do what I want it to do when my Mac does what I want it to do EFFORTLESSLY???

:wtf:

Fuck Windoze.

[frylock]

18. if those things are happening to you..

then you are doing something wrong. Seven computers on my home network, one that is up 100%, has had terabytes of data passed through it, and I don't get viruses, crashes, etc. Of course, I possess m4d 5killz!!

Keep your Windoze updated along with your virus definitions, and your PC should run just fine.

oh, and BTW.. it was a JOKE!

[Gryffindor_Bookworm]

20. Didn't seem like a joke.

But if you say so, I believe you.

I don't have to do any virus definitions at all, though. :-)

And if you never have the problems I described, you are the only Windoze user I've ever known who hasn't. Congratulations on being smarter than a math professor, a lawyer, and a rocket scientist (3 of my 5 brothers, who constantly have those problems). :D

[frylock]

21. it was a joke in the ubiquitous "buy a mac" vein..

and I know of at least two other members of the board who don't have probs with their winboxes either. However, I do believe they are engineers as well.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

13. As a Mac user, I have problems with AOL users.

I've given up on them.

[myomy]

14. Giving up on AOL users is a good idea

.

[Gryffindor_Bookworm]

15. Do you use iChat?

iChat Rocks! I can chat with AOL/AIM people with NO AOL parasites. :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

[BlackVelvetElvis]

16. I've been waiting for an opportunity to use it.

I have an AOL name registered and plan on using iChat when I have some time.

[Gryffindor_Bookworm]

17. It's *fabulous*.

The interface is very cool, too.

[PatGund]

22. You know why WebTV was invented, right???

WebTV was invented to give AOL users somebody to look down on.