[IxDA Discuss] Admin query - broken URLs?

[Jared M. Spool]

Welcome to the world of SMTP/POP servers. Each one decides to do  
something different, and thus the invention of TinyURLs (http:// 
www.tinyurl.com -- what I probably should've used for this link).

It's possible the list server did this. It's also possible it was any  
number of servers that touched the message on its way from me to you.

Of course, HTML email makes this problem go away, right? :D

Jared

On Jan 29, 2007, at 9:48 AM, Alan Wexelblat wrote:

> Recently I've been noticing that IxDA messages are being forcibly
> line-wrapped, which is producing broken URLs in messages.  E.G. this
> appeared in a post from Jared:
>
>> (Borrowed from this great article: http://www.pingmag.jp/2006/05/12/
>> new-levels-of-experience-design/ )
>
> I'm fairly certain he didn't type it that way.  I'm also fairly
> certain Gmail isn't force-wrapping things, as I get quite long URLs
> intact in other mail messages.  Therefore I'd like to ask if the list
> software is doing this and if so, whether it's possible to turn off
> this feature?
>
> I do recognize the readability improvement of shorter line lengths.
> But I would prefer to let the local MUA handle that and (I hope)
> maintain intact URLs
>
> -- 
> --Alan Wexelblat
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