[X4U] Commentary: Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree

[Nick Scalise]

On Oct 16, 2006, at 2:42 PM, Robert MacLeay wrote:

> On 16 Oct 2006 10:21:33 -0600, Doug McNutt  
> <douglist at macnauchtan.com> wrote:
>
>> At 08:41 -0400 10/16/06, Mark Des Cotes wrote:
>> >X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2)
>> ><x-flowed>can't access the article. I get an "Invalid asset ID"  
>> message.
>>
>> And then quoted -and I trimmed
>> >On 16-Oct-06, at 7:54 AM, J Flenner wrote:
>> >
>> > > Any responses for this fellow?
>> > > http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?
>> >> id=1160730321685
>> > > _______________________________________________
>> ></x-flowed>
>>
>> At 08:39 -0700 10/16/06, Ed Graf wrote:
>> >The URL he gave:
>> >
>> >><http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?>http:// 
>> www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?
>> >>id=1160730321685
>> >
>> >when copied and pasted into any browser, should give:
>> >><http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?% 
>> 20>http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?% 
>> 20id=1160730321685
>> >
>> >erase the "%20" characters, right after the ? and just before the  
>> i in id.
>
> Folks, this is doing it the hard way!
>
> URLs can be compressed to fit on one line. Doing so will reduce  
> heartache and other pains.
>
> Whenever you need to include a stupidly long URL in an email or  
> posting, go to
> http://tinyurl.com/
> And enter the offending URL.
>
> In less than a millisecond, you will be returned something like
> http://tinyurl.com/ydrcvc
> And you will live happily ever after.
>
> The service is free.

While using tinyurl is fine for some, please include the 'real' URL  
so that folks who are apprehensive about obfuscated links can choose  
which way they want to click.

--
Nick Scalise
nickscalise at cox.net