nospam RemoveThis @geniegate.com wrote:
> A high percentage of people actually paste URL's directly into search boxes
> because they don't understand the concept of a "url".
I get some traffic from time to time from people who do this, typing in
the address of some site about whose URL I happen to have commentary on
one of my pages, so their search engine brings them to my site instead
of the one they were really trying to go to. I think once when I was
getting a particularly big burst of such mis-accesses, I actually put a
notice on that page saying something like "You moron, this is *not* the
XYZ web site... why don't you try typing XYZ.COM in the *address bar*
where it belongs?"
And then there's the fact that the drooling idiots (AOLers especially)
are unable to type e-mail addresses (their own, or anybody else's)
correctly, and one of their most common errors is to prefix "www." to
them, like they don't understand the distinction between Web and e-mail
addresses. Back in the old days, I often had wildcard addresses set up
on domains (both on my personal sites and at work) and would receive
such misaddressed mail, but due to spam, such wildcards are rare these
days and most mail like that gets bounced.
--
Dan
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