Jonathan, This is so cool, look at the URL that I go to each month when they want payment:
https://dashboard.cbot.com/forms/login.fcc? TYPE=33554433&REALMOID=06-9b2b2568- ac93-101b-8ad9-832f9098000d&GUID=&SMAUTHREASON=0&METHOD=GET&SMAGENTNAME= $SM$dAkso1sgIPk9PBTA%2fWjCk5rWNGdHY43SWMKlmcMvS0AqzjbrxOHRXg%3d% 3d&TARGET=$SM$https%3a%2f%2fdashboard%2ecbot%2ecom%2fpsp%2fPPSFEBILL% 2fCUSTOMER%2fERP%2fs%2fWEBLIB_EOPP_SC%2eHOMEPAGE%2eFieldFormula% 2eIScript_AppHP%3fpt_fname%3dEPEB_EBILLPAYMENT%26FolderPath% 3dPORTAL_ROOT_OBJECT%2eEPEB_EBILLPAYMENT%26IsFolder%3dtrue Now look at the "tiny" link: http://tinyurl.com/2rnyfe I do like this and thank you ever so much, good service today wasn't it!! John R. On Jun 10, 2007, at 5:18 PM, Jonathan Fletcher wrote: > As an afterthought, I looked to see if there was a widget to create > TinyURLs, the service that takes a long URL and makes it a short one. > It turns something like the address in the article: > > <http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000BI5KV0/ref=amb_link_4263902_/ > 002-5510588-1062447> > > Into something like this: > > <http://tinyurl.com/27ghfn> > > There was indeed a widget a while ago, but it has disappeared from > the web. Checking out www.tinyurl.com reveals a trick that looks very > handy, if not perfect. There is a link on their home page that you > can drag to your address bar on the broswer that will take you to a > page with the shortened URL ready to copy and paste into any other > document. > > This takes a few moments longer, but will totally eliminate that > nasty URL wrapping in your emails. > > Now if it would only pre-load your clipboard, THAT would be perfect! > > j. > > p.s. sorry about not renaming that last message. I guess I gave away > the fact that I am on digest, eh? > > > Begin forwarded message: > >> Ok, that didn't work. Sorry. >> >> When I exchange email with others this usually works for me. I sent >> this message to myself and the URLs got split and still clicked fine. >> >> Once in the MacGroup digest, though, they would click, but didn't >> go to the right sites. The spaces that got added for the line >> breaks interfered with the URL. The links would come up in Safari >> with a "%20" (ASCII for "space") where the line break was rather >> than being dropped out to recombine the URL. Removing the "%20" >> made the URL work correctly. >> >> This trick does work in a lot of other situations, though, which Is >> why I have mentioned it a couple of times on this list. Something >> about the listserv software (or maybe OS X Mail's ability to handle >> digest emails) breaks it, though. >> >> Any ideas, Lee? >> >> j. >> >> On Jun 10, 2007, at 1:23 AM, macgroup- >> request at erdos.math.louisville.edu wrote: >> >>> Message: 3 >>> Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 14:18:00 -0400 >>> From: Jonathan Fletcher <jfletch at newmediaconstco.com> >>> Subject: Re: [MacGroup] Broken Links (Was Printer/scanner problems) >>> To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu >>> Message-ID: <93124C92-0574-4D9F-A235- >>> AE3AA17E9BEF at newmediaconstco.com> >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; delsp=yes; >>> format=flowed >>> >>> On JFri, 8 Jun 2007 21:03:34, Ward Oldham <woldham at insightbb.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> George, >>>> >>>> Should you need to download the drivers, copy the full link. I >>>> noticed that both links have been broken. You may find it corrected >>>> below. >>>> >>>> Ward >>> >>> MacWorld writer Rob Griffiths says: >>> >>> "The plain text method >>> If, like me, you try to stay away from rich text e-mails, the simple >>> thing to do is to surround your URL with angle brackets, like this: >>> >>> <http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000BI5KV0/ref=amb_link_4263902_/ >>> 002-5510588-1062447> >>> >>> URLs enclosed in angle brackets should still be clickable?even if >>> the >>> e-mail client inserts a line break for formatting purposes. How >>> come? >>> Because back in 1998, the Network Working Group of the Internet >>> Engineering Task Force (IETF) wrote this document <http:// >>> www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt>, which describes a generic syntax for >>> Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs, of which URLs are a specific >>> form). In the document, the working group describes how URIs >>> enclosed >>> in angle brackets should be parsed when the use of white space (such >>> as line breaks) is required for formatting purposes. Any e-mail >>> client that follows these guidelines should display a clickable >>> link, >>> even if the line is wrapped. >>> >>> Unfortunately, you may still find some e-mail programs that break >>> URLs within angle brackets. If that?s the case, and you?re hard set >>> against sending rich text e-mails, you?ll probably need the next >>> option." >>> >>> The rest of the article is here: >>> <http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/macosxhints/2007/01/sendlongurl/ >>> index.php> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Jonathan Fletcher >>> jfletch at newmediaconstco.com >>> Project Foreman >>> NewMedia Construction Co. >> >> >> >> -- >> Jonathan Fletcher >> jfletch at newmediaconstco.com >> Project Foreman >> NewMedia Construction Co. >> >> > > > > -- > Jonathan Fletcher > jfletch at newmediaconstco.com > Project Foreman > NewMedia Construction Co. > > > > _______________________________________________ > The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will > be June 26 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. > Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup >
