About these long URLs, It depends entirely on the reader's software and you have no control over what people use. Some people might even be people using 15-year-old Windows XT system. And many others use Android phones. You just can't know.
The technique that works for the most number of readers is to shorten the URL by using some forwarding service like tinyurl.com or do what I just did with the above link. Send the message in HTML, not plain text. Then HTML allows you to display the text of a link using different text then the URL. So, for example, I have posted the above link like this: Tiny URL <https://tinyurl.com> and it goes to the same place. Here is a particularly nasty URL for some parts I bought recently https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=stm32f103+us+ship&_in_kw=1&_ex_kw=&_sacat=0&_udlo=&_udhi=&_ftrt=901&_ftrv=1&_sabdlo=&_sabdhi=&_samilow=&_samihi=&_sadis=15&_stpos=90278-4045&_sargn=-1%26saslc%3D1&_salic=1&_sop=12&_dmd=1&_ipg=50&_fosrp=1 The link below may look better for most readers. I converted the above link to GRAMETRICAL ENGLISH. This is a better form, well it is if your reader supports HTML links and as I said I can't control that. You may not care about the part I link to, just an example of how to best tame ugly URLs. Hi, I've been using this little part <https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=stm32f103+us+ship&_in_kw=1&_ex_kw=&_sacat=0&_udlo=&_udhi=&_ftrt=901&_ftrv=1&_sabdlo=&_sabdhi=&_samilow=&_samihi=&_sadis=15&_stpos=90278-4045&_sargn=-1%26saslc%3D1&_salic=1&_sop=12&_dmd=1&_ipg=50&_fosrp=1>in most of my new designs whenever The price is right and it is very versatile and reliable. I suggest doing the above as it results in the best readability. On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 6:57 PM Erik Christiansen <dva...@internode.on.net> wrote: > On 18.02.19 16:52, Gene Heskett wrote: > > unforch, John, you did not surround this link with a pair of<> which > > would have preserved its validity even if it had been 2k chars long, but > > alibaba, rather than leaving half of it displayed so we can manually > > copy/paste the rest of it, has to be cute and replace it all with their > > custom 404 message. And even after I fixed it, it still goes to a google > > listing. And none of them goto that particular machine. > > On 18.02.19 14:39, John Dammeyer wrote: > > I still had to edit the text into one line > > However if you google this: " ? alibaba Low-cost-New-Product-3Axis-> > 4Axis " > > it will bring up the link. > > The original two-chunk URL works fine for me on iceweasel (so firefox > too), just by highlighting the two lines and pasting anywhere in the > browser window. To do that, just: > > Put about:config in the URL box, scroll to middlemouse.contentLoadURL, and > click to toggle it to true. Now a URL highlighted in an xterm can be pasted > to firefox (and opened) with one middlemouse click - even if it has a > spurious space/line-break in it. > > That's miniscule effort for endless ease henceforth. It's the very best > tweak my browser has had, saving a pile of sweat over the years. (Picked > it up from John L. Fjellstad - can't remember which list.) > > Erik > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
