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<FONT FACE="Trebuchet MS"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>You can turn on “preview” in tinyurl and it will show the URL it will take you to so you can abort if you want.<BR>
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Regards, Jim<BR>
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on 10/16/06 7:02 PM, Linda at XPressoBean@mac.com wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Andale Mono"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14.0px'><TT>On 10/16/06 5:52 PM, Nick Scalise wrote:<BR>
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> While using tinyurl is fine for some, please include the 'real' URL<BR>
> so that folks who are apprehensive about obfuscated links can choose<BR>
> which way they want to click.<BR>
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Amen. Thanks you, Nick, for saying so. I don't like to click things that I<BR>
can't tell where I'll be going!<BR>
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Avoiding pasting HTML takes care of dual URLs like the one I see in the<BR>
quoted message.<BR>
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Or use angle brackets in a plain-text message -- which doesn't get mangled<BR>
as often. <BR>
<a href="http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1160730321685"><http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1160730321685></a><BR>
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peace,<BR>
Linda<BR>
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