Tuesday, 26 June 2007

Comment here to leave me a message

You can contact Duae Quartunciae by making a comment to this article.

Comments here are moderated. By default, I will not approve any comments here, on the assumption that people would prefer them to be private communications. This makes the comment a good way to send me a private message, without my having to reveal my email address.

My usual way to reply to people I do not know will be out in the open, as another comment on this blog, which I will approve. I will try to give something in this comment to let a reader identify when a comment is intended as a reply to them. I don't like email in general; but I may also email people in some cases. Please don't be offended if I choose not to use email at first.

If you want to be notified when I put up a reply, you can subscribe to the feed of comments to this post ( feed link). If you don't know about feeds, check it out. It is a very good way to read blogs. There is a free and convenient web based feeds reader available from Google.


3 comments:

Duae Quartunciae said...

Dear Rob Johnson,

I have sent you a message using the "Letters to the editor" feature of your blog. That's a good facility! I have done something fairly similar here; you can get a message to me by commenting to this article.

Thanks for your interest -- Duae Quartunciae

Bob said...

I enjoyed your input concerning the bicyclist here in the Twin Cities.

Also, I noticed you put a link with in the comment. I have not been able to find out how to do this.

Can you be a sport and give me the tip?

I'd sure thank you kindly!

Bob Johnson

Duae Quartunciae said...

Hi Bob,

You are asking about putting a link in with a comment. I am not totally sure what you mean... but comments on a blogspot blog (such as used by me, by Mr Orsak, and by yourself) can include very limited html tags; for bold, for italics, and for links.

To make a link, you write text that looks like this:

Here is a link to the [a href="http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/"]City of Minneapolis Official Web Page[/a].

However, you use angle brackets <> rather than square brackets []. If you use angle brackets, the previous paragraph appears like this:

Here is a link to the City of Minneapolis Official Web Page.

Thanks for your message. You have confirmed for me that this system of contact actually works. I have published your comment, because I am pretty sure you are keen to have people visit your own blog and there seems to be nothing private in your comment. That's not quite the protocol I describe above; let me know if there's a problem.