in reply to E-mail 76th Character Issue

Three options spring to mind, none of them guaranteed, and all of them possibly annoying in different contexts:

1. Turn off text wrapping where possible

2. Enclose the URL in angle brackets, like this - <http://example.org> - it seems to pacify some email applications

3. Send your email as HTML

 

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Re: Re: E-mail 76th Character Issue
by Anonymous Monk on May 19, 2004 at 14:51 UTC
    May be write an application that will send a reference to a file where the actually url lives.
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      If I understand you correctly, and I'm far from sure that I do, I think you are suggesting that you could send a shorter reference to a location that then would either forward the request to the longer url, or simply display it for the user to click upon.

      If this is the gist of your suggestion, frankly, it sounds like quite a lot of extra complexity for such a small problem.

      Perhaps you should ask your users how they would like to deal with this problem, since chances are reasonable that they have encountered it before, as most web users - especially users of web based email - have encountered text-wrapped urls at some time or another.

      If someone asked me whether I would prefer to manually fix these text-wrapped urls or deal with an intermediate reference, like the one you seem to be suggesting, I would choose the former.

       

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