[LINK] E-mail question

[Ivan Trundle]

Thanks to everyone who responded both on and off Link.

It looks to me as though there is no standard, and the use of angle  
brackets isn't of any real help to those who are unable to read  
longer URLs.

Although it has been suggested that we use TinyURL or similar to send  
out this kind of information, I regard using a third-party website to  
direct people to our website as a highly unprofessional.

I think that the 80:20 rule might well have to apply. And we will  
continue to try to help those who at least are kind enough to tell us  
that the URL doesn't work (mostly, they don't have a clue that the  
last few characters have dropped off, and are mostly not greatly  
interested in pursuing the problem, or even the right URL - hence my  
desire to find a solution.

Of course, I could ask our programmers to change their thinking, and  
invent shorter URLs, but I've got more chance of changing the way the  
rest of the world operates than changing our programmers.

Thanks to all again. We will continue to make elliptical orbits on  
this one.

iT


On 09/06/2007, at 12:37 PM, Rick Welykochy wrote:

>
> Ivan, I have a feeling that you and your colleagues are already
> going around in circles similar to this, trying to find a
> solution that works on the majority of email clients.

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