Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I straddle the two platforms, using both a Mac and PC for my LUG activities. So I would notice the problem--for example, my week 45 posting was sent from my Powerbook using the Mail program, and when I pull it up on my Windows PC, the link is fine. I guess because my links tend to be reasonably short. But I am with Brian on this--when I see a broken link, I often do not bother putting it back together to visit the site in question. Another solution for people who have long links and use Macs: get Thunderbird instead. As far as I can tell, it does not break links on either platform. Nathan Brian Reid wrote: > Almost every URL posted to the LUG by Mac users is broken in half. > Sometimes I have the patience to reconstruct it so I can look at your > pictures, but often I don't. Now is one of those "don't" times. > > The Mac mail program has a command that inserts URLs into a message > without breaking them. (Outlook should be so lucky). It would be > awfully good if you could use it. The energy that you put into posting > pictures is wasted if nobody can look at them because your URLs are > broken. About 95% of the URLs that Alastair has posted in the last > month have been broken. Other Mac posters have similar numbers. > > Under the Edit menu, there is an "Add Hyperlink" command. Please > please please get in the habit of using it so that the rest of us can > see your pictures. Or else use tinyurl or make-a-shorter-link. > > Outlook users need to put <> characters around their URLs or else use > tinyurl or make-a-shorter-link. > > Brian Reid > Saloon Keeper. > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Nathan Wajsman Almere, The Netherlands Opportunistic Image Acquisition General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com and http://www.greatpix.eu Picture-A-Week: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Seville photography: http://www.fotosevilla.com Stock photography: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman http://myloupe.com/home/found_photographer.php?photographer=507 Prints for sale: http://www.photodeluge.com Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog SUPPORT FREEDOM OF SPEECH, BUY DANISH PRODUCTS!