[Leica] Guidelines for getting your URLs through to us intact

[kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)]

On Nov 26, 2006, at 10:36 AM, Brian Reid wrote:

> URLs are broken by sending mailers as part of wrapping long
> lines into shorter lines so that it will fit into a window.
> Every mailer has some number that is its target line length;
> lines longer than that target will be split. If you include
> a URL that is shorter than the target line length, it will
> not be broken.
>
> If your mailer is configurable, you can set the line length
> to a big number. I set mine to 999. Outlook is normally set
> at 60.

Brian, I don't see that you can configure Mac OSX Mail...unless you  
can tell me how to do it...  thanks Steve


>
> If your mailer is not configurable, then you'll have to use
> some cleverness to get URLs through.
>
> Don't ever expect URLs to work in forwarded messages. The
> "Forward" commands almost always break lines, and they usually
> add extra characters that make it impossible for mail readers
> to reconstruct the broken URL.
>
> If you put <pointy brackets> around a URL, the vast majority
> of mail readers will be able to process it even if it is
> broken. But if you forward a message that has a URL with
> <pointy brackets>, that is no longer true.
>
> TinyURL and MakeAshorterLink always work. They give you a
> replacement URL that is shorter than any mailer's line length.
>
> If you are sure that your mailer does not wrap lines, then you
> can just send URLs directly. If you are not sure, then the best
> thing you can do is to put in the URL with <> around it, and
> also use TinyURL or MakeAshorterLink.
>
> And remember: if you ever forward a message containing a URL,
> that URL will almost certainly break.
>
> Brian Reid
> LUG Saloon Keeper
>
>
>
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