John Clegg wrote:
> 2009/6/24 Gillian Braunold <[log in to unmask]>
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>> The service is free to NHS workforce- hence the requirement to be on the
>> network to register- thereafter its from anywhere to access your mail.
>> Gillian
A page promises more information at that page.
No further information is present, nor is there any means to obtain it.
Registration is irrelevant to this small point.
The solution is obvious ... don't point at that page, point at one
nearby with the information the person you have just sent there wants on it.
SO what category of error is it?
I assign it to the category of not caring how the Web should work, or
possibly not believing that the target is run reliably in Web terms.
I'll explain, many - possibly most - NHS organisations if they put
useful and relevant information up on a website and then point to it
from elsewhere (by emails or on printed material) do not give the URL,
they give the top of domain URL, their root or front page.
Most of them, having made a contribution to the Web, do not keep it
there - they arbitrarily change their names and their domain name to
follow it[1], fail to own their copyright (and to make it copyleft) take
a contract with a new firm and have a new site made from scratch or
worse the uncorrected launch data of the previous one, etc, so authors
don't beleive in what they point to.
And/Or they don't check that what they are pointing to is actually
there - if you do that you have the exact URL all ready to paste.
Or they simply think that they are very very important[2], and nobody
else is important or busy and thus saving 30 seconds for them is better
than saving a minute for each of their readers.
[1] Trust and its abbreviations should not appear in any NHS URL, for
instance, whereas I think Exeter is a safe word, as are secondary,
primary, medicine, surgery, eyes, ears, admin and until people who
regard me as a resource (to be mined) rather than a person reached high
positions, "personnel". "Humanresources/hr" hopefully is not a word to
put in a URL for the persistent Web.
[2] more so than those who see patients, at least.
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