RE: [CR]Mystery Bike on Ebay & eBay URLs in general

(Example: Books:Ron Kitching)

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Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 01:00:18 -0500
To: Mark Bulgier <mark@bulgier.net>, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
From: "Sheldon Brown" <CaptBike@sheldonbrown.com>
Subject: RE: [CR]Mystery Bike on Ebay & eBay URLs in general


Mark Bulgier wrote:
>The infamous Lou Deeter wrote:

Not clear to me what his crime is that you should call him "infamous"...?
> >
>> <A
> > HREF="http://ebay.com/<blah>
> > 700350995&category=7298">http://ebay.com/<blah>
>> dll?ViewItem&item=2700350995&
>> category=7298</A>
>
>Because that URL wraps in most people e-mail readers it won't be a clickable
>link, but when I edited it down to:
>http://ebay.com/<blah>
>it worked fine. (I hope that still shows as a clickable link without
>wrapping when it gets to you)

Another useful trick is to include a URL in a pair of "< >"s thus:

This makes even very long URLs work, viz

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=masi+3v++red+group:rec.bicycles.marketplace&num=30&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&scoring=d

That's a Google Groups search for red Masi 3vs, sorted by date.

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