Charles, That is a good question. I was never able to pin down when the link would stop working, so I was never confident when I sent them if they would work. As for sending them to yourself using Mail.app, they will always work. I could sent long links to my daughter and my friend who both used Mail.app, just not to others that did not. Guy Charles Turner wrote: > On Apr 18, 2004, at 7:13 AM, Home Macintosh Users List wrote: > > > How long is long? I experimented and URLs that were so long that they > had to wrap to another line were still fine when I received the test > message that I sent to myself. >