On Sat, 22 May 2004, Doug Franklin wrote:
> On Sat, 22 May 2004 08:34:16 +0200, Anders Hultman wrote:
> > >Sorry if the link truncatees. I can't set my page width any higher.
> >
> > A handy tip is to place long links between < and > marks. Several
> > e-mail programs then will recognize that it's one continuing URL even
> > if it's broken over two or more lines.
>
> Something else you can try is turning off word wrap in the sending
> email program.  Most email programs will line break when receiving as
> needed, and often they will recognize the full URL within the
> "un-line-broken" message coming in and maintain them when word wrapping
> the message for display.
>
> Honestly, I don't think that any of the approaches we've discussed will
> work all of the time, and some of them will work better or worse with
> different email agent software.

one approach which always works is to use tinyurl.

http://www.tinyurl.com

It will take any long URL and make another URL for it that is about
15 characters long.  It is trivial to use and works great.

alex

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