On Sep 19, 2010, at 6:05 PM, Xavier Ho wrote: > On 20 September 2010 07:59, Ken Watford > <kwatford+pyt...@gmail.com<kwatford%2bpyt...@gmail.com> >> wrote: > >> >> Not that I disagree with you, but you might find this helpful: >> http://tinyurl.com/preview.php >> -- >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >> > > I don't think the OP wants a preview feature. The fact that you still have > to go through tinyurl (which by the way, the short link itself in the email > has no information on where it is whatsoever), and it makes searching > through the archives difficult, too. > > We don't have a 140 character limit like Twitter. There's no reason we can't > post the full link for reference purposes.
Some email systems still insert hard line breaks around the 72 or 80 column mark and as a result long URLs get broken. I hope anyone on this list would be able to surgically repair a broken URL, but I email plenty of people who can't and tinyurl & friends are really helpful in that context. bye P -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
