Eric Chevalier wrote:
On 21 Dec 2007 11:03:47 -0800,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Edward Jaffe) wrote:
With an email client that understands hwo to properly handle URLs, no
extra effort is required. You simply post in the URL -- whether long or
short -- and it is not wrapped. For example, this should (hopefully) not
wrap:
http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid80_gci1280330,00.html?track=NL-576&ad=611332&asrc=EM_NLT_2483474&uid=279318
I use Forte Agent version 4.2, and it had no problems with your URL.
However, Agent does _not_ seem to handle the wrapped URL in Ed G's
message:
<http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/general/
0,295582,sid80_gci1286765,00.html?
track=NL-576&ad=617990&asrc=EM_NLN_2777580&uid=6570353>
that triggered my response.
I think that Eg's email client "X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2)" is
wrapping the URL before it even gets sent. He could try various client
settings, there might be a newer version, or he could switch to using a
client, like Thunderbird, known to preserve URLs.
After reading all of the responses to my initial note, I've come to
feel that putting both the full URL and a tinyurl link in a message is
a reasonable compromise. Yes, I understand that tinyurl links do have
some security exposures, but in a small community like IBM-Main, I'm
willing to be pretty trusting.
I question the need for TinyURLs at all! To me, it seems like an
extra-step, time-wasting workaround in an attempt -- on the part of
people with working email clients -- to mitigate issues caused by
software bugs in other people's email clients. In this thread, I've
proved that long URLs inserted by my email client work for nearly
everyone. I'd rather expect the others to upgrade/reconfigure their
software -- or just deal with their substandard email client experience
in silence -- than expend extra effort _every time I post a URL_ to
generate a more consumable version just for them.
After all, whatever one might think of Ed G's technical contributions
to this group, or his opinions of IBM, I don't believe he is at all
malicious!
Not malicious. But, he did admit to manually altering his URLs (by
surrounding them with less-than and greater-than characters??!) in an
attempt to make them not wrap. Eg needs to find a solution that works
rather than counting on one that doesn't.
--
Edward E Jaffe
Phoenix Software International, Inc
5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800
Los Angeles, CA 90045
310-338-0400 x318
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/
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