At 10:22 AM -0500 11/19/03, Chris Grindstaff wrote:

TAN> The best way is to keep the url short.  One way is to not repeating the
TAN> default index.html as follow.

TAN> http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/developers/talks/HowToKeepYourJob/

Or use tinyurl.com to create http://tinyurl.com/voci

Another good way is to follow RFC-1738 <http://www.apps.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.html> and enclose the URL in angle brackets. Most e-mailers will respect the brackets and preserve the full URL even if it wraps a line. Although that RFC recommends prefacing all URLs with "URL:", I find that most e-mailers work slightly better if you leave that part out. Just for the heck of it, here are two really long URLs to test your own e-mailer on.


First, without the URL: prefix-

<http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/stats/batting?ageMax=99&hand=a&league=mlb&sort=runsCreatedPer27Outs&seasonType=2&type=sab&split=0&pos=all&season=2003&ageMin=0>

Then, with the prefix (my own e-mailer displays this incorrectly, but actually handles it properly when transferring to the browser)-

<URL:http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/stats/batting?ageMax=99&hand=a&league=mlb&sort=runsCreatedPer27Outs&seasonType=2&type=sab&split=0&pos=all&season=2003&ageMin=0>

HTH,
--

-Adam Kuehn

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