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Date:	Wed, 18 Feb 2004 16:47:51 PST8
From:	waynec@linkline.com
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	"SoCal OS/2 User Group" <scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: OT: url in an Email

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Now and then I send a url address in an email, or receive one. If it is a
long url (like an eBay item listing, for instance) the url may get split
across 2 text lines and only the first portion is made into a link (ie, can
be clicked to got to the web address).

Is there an easy way to create a link with a link name, such that a long url
address will be irrelevant?

I did use google and found a website that will "convert" a long url to a
shorter one (http://tinyurl.com/create.php), and it works, but it appears
that they simply store your url and substitute a link to a file they create
on their site, which then redirects to the original long url website. I
suspect they probably provide this service in order to collect information
about web users for their own purposes, so I'm not excited about using it.

I am not an html programmer, but in perusing for information using google, I
came across some coding for hyperlinks that goes like this:

Yahoo ">http://www.yahoo.com">Yahoo

Where the hyperlink becomes the word "Yahoo" (underlined), which when
clicked takes you to http://www.yahoo.com. Unfortunately, this html coding
does not seem to work when used within text in an email, it simply shows up
verbatim in the sent email as a line of text.

I have long since learned I have to cut & paste the 2-part urls from an
email I've received to my browser's url address field, but I frequently send
emails containing url addresses to computer illiterates and they don't
recognize the problem.

So, is there a clean, easy answer to putting a short hyperlink into an email
in order to prevent a loooonnnngggg url from being split into 2+ parts?

Wayne

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