Hi,
Wednesday, October 1, 2008, 3:51:29 PM, Mark Greven wrote:
> It seems that when attempting to view submitted links on the CR threads,
> that about 30% of them are either not vaild, or simply can't be found. Ar
> e the links being posted in their entirety? I feel that I'm missing some va
> luable knowledge in their absence of function. I'm using the latest version
> of Firefox which works brilliantly everywhere else. Thanks!
Mostly, people copy/paste long links into their mail clients' editors,
where they are wrapped at position 80 or thereabouts, producing
garbage. Why most modern email editors insist on wrapping URLs is a
mystery to me... the solution is to use http://tinyurl.com/
To use a recent example, the link to the Evelyn Hamilton frame looked like this in the original post (2 separate lines):
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/
Clicking on such link, at least in my email reader, tries to open an URL consisting only of the first of the two lines - which of course does not work as the original link was split in two, but copying both lines into a text editor and removing the newline char yields a valid URL:
(The above should be a single line.) Or, you can click on the
following "tiny url": http://tinyurl.com/
Hope this helps...
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Cheers,
Dmitry Yaitskov,
Toronto, Canada.