Ok, that didn't work. Sorry. When I exchange email with others this usually works for me. I sent this message to myself and the URLs got split and still clicked fine.
Once in the MacGroup digest, though, they would click, but didn't go to the right sites. The spaces that got added for the line breaks interfered with the URL. The links would come up in Safari with a "% 20" (ASCII for "space") where the line break was rather than being dropped out to recombine the URL. Removing the "%20" made the URL work correctly. This trick does work in a lot of other situations, though, which Is why I have mentioned it a couple of times on this list. Something about the listserv software (or maybe OS X Mail's ability to handle digest emails) breaks it, though. Any ideas, Lee? j. On Jun 10, 2007, at 1:23 AM, macgroup- request at erdos.math.louisville.edu wrote: > Message: 3 > Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 14:18:00 -0400 > From: Jonathan Fletcher <jfletch at newmediaconstco.com> > Subject: Re: [MacGroup] Broken Links (Was Printer/scanner problems) > To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Message-ID: <93124C92-0574-4D9F-A235-AE3AA17E9BEF at newmediaconstco.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; delsp=yes; > format=flowed > > On JFri, 8 Jun 2007 21:03:34, Ward Oldham <woldham at insightbb.com> > wrote: > >> George, >> >> Should you need to download the drivers, copy the full link. I >> noticed that both links have been broken. You may find it corrected >> below. >> >> Ward > > MacWorld writer Rob Griffiths says: > > "The plain text method > If, like me, you try to stay away from rich text e-mails, the simple > thing to do is to surround your URL with angle brackets, like this: > > <http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000BI5KV0/ref=amb_link_4263902_/ > 002-5510588-1062447> > > URLs enclosed in angle brackets should still be clickable?even if the > e-mail client inserts a line break for formatting purposes. How come? > Because back in 1998, the Network Working Group of the Internet > Engineering Task Force (IETF) wrote this document <http:// > www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt>, which describes a generic syntax for > Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs, of which URLs are a specific > form). In the document, the working group describes how URIs enclosed > in angle brackets should be parsed when the use of white space (such > as line breaks) is required for formatting purposes. Any e-mail > client that follows these guidelines should display a clickable link, > even if the line is wrapped. > > Unfortunately, you may still find some e-mail programs that break > URLs within angle brackets. If that?s the case, and you?re hard set > against sending rich text e-mails, you?ll probably need the next > option." > > The rest of the article is here: > <http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/macosxhints/2007/01/sendlongurl/ > index.php> > > > -- > Jonathan Fletcher > jfletch at newmediaconstco.com > Project Foreman > NewMedia Construction Co. -- Jonathan Fletcher jfletch at newmediaconstco.com Project Foreman NewMedia Construction Co.
