On Sep 24, 2012 7:18 PM, "Mark A. Hershberger" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09/23/2012 06:33 PM, K. Peachey wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 4:03 AM, Mark A. Hershberger <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 09/23/2012 12:54 PM, Krinkle wrote: > >>> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/[...] > >> > >> Link shortened: http://hexm.de/lp > > > > There is no need to shorten urls in emails, Please don't. > > I've personally seen mail readers and MTAs that mangle long URLs. Since > this sort of mangling happens, I see a need for a way to make URLs > usable. I use a shortener for those URLS as a precautionary measure and > to help me communicate with others.
I personally agree it's annoying and wish you didn't. But maybe there's mangling examples I've not seen. IMHO, it should usually be enough to either wrap in angle brackets or put the URL in a footnote on it's own line with just the footnote number. Anyway, I do certainly think we have bigger fish to fry. -Jeremy _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
