On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 08:51:34 -0500, Bob Pastorio >
wrote:

>Steve Wertz wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>Just one more good reason to use TinyURL.

I don't have any sympathy for newsreaders that can't handle URL's
properly and I will not go out of my way to accomodate them. I post
it correctly, what other people do with it afterwards is their own
(and subsequent users) problems.

-sw