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Date:	Tue, 9 Mar 2004 14:30:36 PST8
From:	waynec@linkline.com
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	"Scoug Help Group OS/2" <scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: url link in email

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I am having difficulty with computer-illiterate friends that don't
understand url addresses. If I send them a url address in an email and it
gets formatted incorrectly, such that only part of the url address string
gets converted to a clickable link by their email provider (with some part
of the url address left over), they are at a loss after they click and get
the "page not found" message.

I am getting weary of trying to explain links, url addresses, and cut &
paste procedures without even having the luxury of seeing how their browser
is laid out. They just don't seem to grasp the concept, and use it so seldom
that they forget it and bug me a few weeks later about the next link I send
them that doesn't work.

Is there any way I can convert a long address to a very short one that works
without having to use an intermediate web site? ...without creating a coded
link at some service website which causes the person receiving the link to
pass back through the same web site to do the decoding on the way to the
target webpage, thereby inviting spam and popups.

Wayne

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