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Date:	Wed, 10 Mar 2004 02:38:23 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:
>
> I received your url in one piece as a clickable link, and
> it correctly exceeds the width of my email window to stay
> in one piece. That is not always the case, some long
> url's that I receive are split, with only the first part
> clickable. Doesn't that sometimes happen to you? I might
> assume the other person's email program caused that, but
> I'm not certain. I also know that some long url's I send
> out are split when the recipient receives it.

What I've noticed is that the urls are "wrapped" (split) by the
_sender's_ email program. The email servers that the message goes
through don't change anything (they just relay the message) and the
receiver's email program just displays what was sent.

However, it sounds like you're using web-based email rather than an
email program. Your message header contains this line:

Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"

and you might want to look for the "format=flowed" setting and turn it
off.

> If I type [a long url], the window then gives me the
> sliding bar indicating the window is now wider than the
> text that is showing, in order to contain that long url line.

Send a copy (Cc or Bcc) of your messages back to yourself to see if the
url is "split". That way you can see exactly what the other guy got.

> Can I assume that "RFC" refers to some sort of header
> on the email (which I apparently don't have access to)?

You should have view access to the headers on each message. If you
can't find the setting to do this, call your ISP and ask how to do it.

RFC's are the technical specifications which the Internet is built
upon. There are several thousand of them; if you have some spare
reading time you can go to http://www.rfc-editor.org/ and look at them.
The new email spec RFC's are numbers 2821 and 2822.

- Peter

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