On 07/01/2015 07:09 PM, George Ramsower wrote:
>
>
> On 7/1/2015 3:14 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Jeff, I don't want to be nit picky but I cannot follow that link
>> without some pretty precise copying and pasting for the two pieces of
>> it to make it one piece and valid to the browser. One of the
>> conventions for email is that if the link is longer than a 70
>> character line, and subject to automatic line wrap in your email agent
>> or mine, it is to be enclosed in a pair of <> like this
>> <http://www.ebay.com/itm/121693122922?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984
>> .m1558.l2649> The link should then be valid for anyone clicking on it
>> if their email agent sticks to the rfc's that try to govern how the
>> net works. And it looks like a decent deal for the sheckles asked.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://my.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?MyEbayBeta&CurrentPage=MyeBayNextS
>>> elling &ssPageName=STRK:ME:LNLK:MESEX
>>>
>>> This seems to link to the personal selling page of the viewer.
>> Cheers, Gene Heskett
>    I have to agree with you on this point. However, I see this so much, I
> learned how to get around that but, it is annoying. I've had that same
> problem posting a link to a list or even private emails. Sometimes the
> email client is the fault due to word wrapping in the window size being
> used. I'm using Thunderbird now and it does not do that problem.

Same here. Thunderbird doesn't seem to mangle long URLs. Before that, I 
used to use tinyurl a lot:
http://tinyurl.com/

So:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/121693122922?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649

can be:
http://tinyurl.com/mill-on-eBay



-- 
Kirk Wallace
http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/
http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/

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