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Date:	Tue, 9 Mar 2004 22:22:46 PST8
From:	Tom Brown <thombrown@san.rr.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 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

Try this: put the URL on a line after a double dash:
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http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?cgiurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcgi.ebay.com%2Fws%2F&MfcISAPICommand=GetResult&ht=1&from=R7&ebaytag1=ebayreg&query=scsi+hard+drive&query2=scsi+hard+drive&search_option=1&exclude=&category0=&minPrice=&maxPrice=&ebaytag1code=0&st=&SortProperty=MetaEndSort

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Tom Brown
thombrown at san dot rr dot com
Member SCOUG, V.O.I.C.E. & SDAA
running eComStation GA + FP 3
eCS system uptime is 0 days 00:42 hours

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