You probably ought to look for the root causes of the problem. The poster did nothing wrong. Some places to start: - The website itself (good luck getting them to shorten their URL's) - Your client application that doesn't understand URL's that wrap around. Thanks for the link Russell. I heard some stuff on the news about Rutan doing some new things and the soundbyte left something to be desired on CNN. Nate Duehr, nate@natetech.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Holden" To: Sent: Monday, April 21, 2003 6:19 AM Subject: Re: [OT]: Spaceship 1 - Rutans reusable spaceship > On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 12:42, Russell McMahon wrote: > > Comprehensive Aviation Week article > > http://www.aviationnow.com/avnow/news/channel_awst_story.jsp?id=news/04213to > > p.xml > > When you post links longer than 76 characters can you please use TinyURL > or MakeAShorterLink so it doesn't wrap onto the next line? To fix it > with my current mail client/browser setup I have to open a terminal, cut > and paste the first line into the terminal, cut and paste the second > line into the terminal, cut and paste the result into the browser, and > finally close the terminal instead of simply clicking on the link. > > I prefer TinyURL because the links it produces are shorter and it > redirects you straight to the target page instead of via their own site > (you can configure it not to do that but I still find it annoying). They > both have a nifty Javascript bookmark thing that you can put on your > browser toolbar to instantly make a tiny/shorter link to the current > page. > > http://tinyurl.com/ > http://makeashorterlink.com/ > > -- > ------------ Alex Holden - http://www.linuxhacker.org ------------ > If it doesn't work, you're not hitting it with a big enough hammer > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList > mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu