Thursday Hate: Sending links as email subjects
Is it really that much of a pain to paste a link in your email’s body rather than the subject? Surely not! The effort it takes to type a quick description in the subject and paste a link in the body is exactly the same as doing the reverse. So why do people do this? I do not know of any email program out there lets you click a link that’s the subject of an email. Not Gmail, not Hotmail, not Yahoo, not Thunderbird, not Outlook. All it does is make you copy the link yourself and paste it in a new browser window, a process which itself is prone to error. So by sending a link as a subject, you are not only inconveniencing your friend, but you’re also taking a risk that the interesting content you want to share will not to reach your friend at all.
Is it just me or do others hate this?
