I understand that. I don't understand how copy/paste has anything to do with pinging anything on the internet with that code.
Is this maybe some gmail thing? I can't think of mechanism that makes copy/paste trigger this.
Is this maybe some gmail thing? I can't think of mechanism that makes copy/paste trigger this.
I suspect the phrasing was used since the discussion is about text-only email and, this being Hacker News, someone might have nit-picked that they view plaintext emails in a mail user agent program which does not scan for strings matching the format of a URL and offer a direct way to click on them or otherwise trigger automated opening of them in a Web user-agent program, and so the person who wrote "copy/paste" had to avoid saying "click on the link".