Posted by Stewart Gordon on 09/27/05 12:20

Michael Winter wrote:
> On 23/09/2005 16:15, Stewart Gordon wrote:
>
> [Long URLs]
>
>> http://tinyurl.com/ is your friend.
>
> Wrapping a URL with <URL:...> seems to work well with many clients,
> though I think someone once mentioned that it doesn't make any
> difference with Gravity.

I know about this stopping URLs from colliding with enclosing
punctuation. But I had no idea that it stopped them from breaking up in
some programs' wordwrapping.

> Don't forget that some people (a couple of regulars, at least) don't
> like redirected URLs.

Any idea why?

Stewart.

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