On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 13:08:40 -0500, Bob Pastorio >
wrote:

>There are a few sites that can take those hundred-character URL's and
>make them into small ones.

Or you can just enclose the URL in <>'s. Like so:

<http://forums.egullet.com/index.php?s=c4cb3dd364f666234297d0108adf8894&act=S T&f=2&t=28870&st=990&#entry422130>

All the newsreaders I'm familar with will not break these URL's. Some
newsreaders, though, will mangle them on followups when quoting that
same URL.

-sw