Good sleuthing, Sherlock. Those tiny urls are helpful though. Were you able to ascertain whether having both a "tiny" and a regular address would work? Or does putting a "tiny" in there automatically shut you out of Archives? I say that because, of course, the tiny is often much preferable, especially when dealing with a tiny screen.
One more test? Beth Benoit Granite State College Plymouth State University New Hampshire On Jan 15, 2012 10:53 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Some time ago Mike Palij expressed concern (uncharacteristic but > appreciated) that my posts were not being archived at Mail-Archive. I > looked into it, and, sure enough, he was right. I was not the only > one this happened to, but it seemed to happen more often to me than > to anyone else. My posts were going out to subscribers, but not to > the archive. It was also mysterious that a few of them did get > archived, although most did not. > > It started to drive me nuts. Was it censorship? Were my occasionally > controversial or potty-mouth posts deemed inappropriate for > Mail-Archive? Why me? Or was it a time-of-posting effect, and I just > happened to post more often at peak times when messages were prone to > be lost? I looked into it. > > None of the above, it turns out. The problem is tinyurl. In an effort > to save people the annoyance of having to deal with long url links in > my posts, I routinely run them through the tinyurl web service to > shorten them. Many of my posts contain tinyurls. Of my recent posts, > those which were excluded from the archive contained a tinyurl; those > which made it did not. My tests confirmed this. > > So I can get into the archive as long as I don't use a tinyurl. . > Presumably, this rule holds for others as well. > > I also checked into snipurl, an alternative service for shortening > urls. They're ok. It seems that snipurls are kosher but tinyurls are > not. I have no idea why Mail-Archive hates tinyurls. > > The final test is this post. It does not contain a tinyurl. If it > makes it into the archive, Q.E.D. And Mike P. need worry no more > about my posts. > > Stephen > > -------------------------------------------- > Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. > Professor of Psychology, Emeritus > Bishop's University > Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada > e-mail: sblack at ubishops.ca > --------------------------------------------- > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13105.b9b37cdd198e940b73969ea6ba7aaf72&n=T&l=tips&o=15329 > or send a blank email to > leave-15329-13105.b9b37cdd198e940b73969ea6ba7aa...@fsulist.frostburg.edu > --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=15330 or send a blank email to leave-15330-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
