Laurel > wrote:

>On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 08:39:27 -0500, The Cook wrote
>(in article >):
>
>> Scott > wrote:
>>
>>> In article >,
>>> George Shirley > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Depends on your newsreader Scott. I use Netscape 7.xx and the url's turn
>>>> up in blue type and you just click them. The brackets aren't really
>>>> needed.
>>>
>>> I don't dispute that some newsreaders don't need it; I simply said that
>>> using "< >" works with ALL newsreaders, rather than just many.
>>>
>>> BTW, how does Netscape treat this link:
>>>
>>> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...22499/sr=8-2/r
>>> ef=sr_8_xs_ap_i2_xgl14/102-5358893-3277729?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
>>>
>>> also as compared to this:
>>>
>>> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...d=1100922499/s
>>> r=8-2/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i2_xgl14/102-5358893-3277729?v=glance&s=books&n=5078
>>> 46
>>
>> In Agent the URL's are split. One way I get around this if I want to
>> launch it is to "reply" and then remove the line feed and extraneous
>> characters.
>>
>
>When I have a long URL, I like to use this:
>
>http://tinyurl.com/
>
>You put in the long URL and it transforms it to a tiny one, then you can post
>or email that.
>
>Laurel

There are a number of people who do not like the surprises you
sometimes get when opening the tinyurl. I want to know exactly where
the reference is sending me. I may have already looked at it and
decided to bookmark it or I may have looked and decided it had nothing
of interest.

--
Susan N.

"Moral indignation is in most cases two percent moral, 48 percent indignation, and 50 percent envy."
Vittorio De Sica, Italian movie director (1901-1974)