grocery-store interface question
Sep. 23rd, 2004 02:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cellio
Today, as I approached the checkout lines with a dozen bagels, my
salad, and a few other things, I found myself wondering about the
specification of "12 items or fewer". (Fewer! They actually
said "fewer" instead of "less"!) I assume they do not mean 12 individual
items no matter how packaged, else you could never go through with a
case of pop or a bag of potato chips. So do they mean 12 scannable
things, or 12 items at the smallest unit size sold? Would my dozen
bagels be ok in a pre-packaged bag with a UPC symbol but not if the
clerk had to type in "12 @ [price]"? Or is the fact that it generates
a single line on the receipt what matters?
These thoughts brought to you by "total items: 20" on my receipt, a need to maintain my reputation as a pedant, a desire to test posting by email, and caffeine deficiency. :-)
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Date: 2004-09-23 01:12 pm (UTC)Yes. Features are documented here; these specific items are covered here.
Do they enforce the web-interface length limitation of some 4000 characters for email?
Oh, is that why some of my posts from HUC this summer were failing via the web form? I thought I was running into bandwidth problems (timeouts) because it was a slow connection. Anyway, I haven't checked length, but I made some pretty long posts in July via email and they went through just fine. But aside from that one incident this summer I haven't bumped into a length limitation on posts, so maybe I'm just insufficiently verbose. :-) (On the other hand, I've hit it with comments a few times.)
What happens to attachments?
I don't know; I haven't tried sending attachments to LJ via email.
HTML vs. plain text posts?
They tell you to post in plain text, not HTML -- but you can use HTML anyway so long as you stick an <lj-raw> at the beginning of the body.
I've always wondered what happens if you respond, via email, to one of those (you got a comment) messages.
I don't think you can. They give you URLs, but there's no relevant reply-to address.