At 8:30 -0600, 2/17/03,   (William Ove)  observed:

>  As a general tip it is worthwhile, but it is not universal.
>
>  Some email applications have the option to rewrap a message before sending.
>  Other email applications have options to set specific line lengths on text
>  mail. If the URL is longer than one line these options will introduce a hard
>  return into the URL which will generally make it fail when received.
>
>  In a list such as this, there is always the possibility that the message is
>  being rewrapped by the list software. This is probably always the case for
>  the digest version.
>
>  Apple Data Detectors available from Apple, will parse highlighted text and
>  does an excellent job of reassembling broken URLs into useful links. This
>  package is based on AppleScript and works through a contextual menu. It is
>  independent of any settings and behaviors of the email applications as long
>  as they work with contextual menus.

Live and learn.
  I guess either things  change or the information I was given was wrong.

My apologies.

  Paul

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