Posted by Dave Smithz on 07/20/05 13:27

Thanks for your suggestions. Please see my comments inline.

"Philip Ronan" <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
> 1. Visit http://tinyurl.com/

This would not be practicle. In a single email out I sometimes can have
thousands of different URLs because each member receives their own custom
link. So am I right in thinking tinyURL would not help?

> -- OR --
>
> 2. Put angle brackets around the URLs like this:
>
> <http://www.example.com/path/to/a-script-with-a-very-long-filename?and=a&lon
> g=search&string=stuck&on=at&the=end>

Does this actually work?? Even the example you gave does not actually work
because the URL got broken? Sounds good, but as it did not work in my
Outlook Express news reader will it work elsewhere?


> -- OR --
>
> 3. Make your URLs shorter so they don't break. This is obviously the best
> solution.

Difficult because I have a unique code for each user which also has to
convey a lot of data. Plus the original URL is also quite long to start
with.

Any more suggestions welcome.

Kind regards

Dave

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