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Date:	Tue, 9 Mar 2004 20:36:06 PST8
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: url link in email

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waynec@linkline.com wrote:
>
> 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)

I use three different techniques.

1) I format the url onto its own line, for example:

http://www.scoug.com

so the url is near the beginning of the line and
hopefully won't be "too long" for the line.

2) I set my email wordwrap to OFF for this one message so the url won't "wrap". This line you are looking at is very long because I have my wordwrap "OFF".

And here is a long unsplit url:

http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?ed=SAk5JOp_0TroLW0I0.61StO2J6cHNFOL&csz=Los+Angeles%2C+CA&country=us&new=1&name=&qty=

3) I have my messages on Send Delay so they go to the
Outbox but _aren't_ sent until I say so. This allows
me to open the message in a text editor such as EPM
and change anything I don't like -- for example put
a split url back together on one line.

Note that there is a specification (it's in the email
RFC which I think is 2821 and 2822) for the maximum
length of an email line. I forget what it is.

- Peter

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