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Adam Bailey <[log in to unmask]>
Thu, 22 Mar 2001 11:08:15 -0600
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On 3/22/01 10:53 AM, Heller, Paul <[log in to unmask]> wrote...

>We have had difficulty in sending out long URLs on our email lists. Of
>course we try to use links that have short URLs, but sometimes that just
>isn't plausible. When URL that spans two lines is included, the second line
>is "broken" by Listserv--in other words, the second line of the URL is not
>hyperlinked, and when people click the first line of text that is linked,
>they will get a "Page cannot be displayed" error. Is there a way to get
>these long URLs to remain hyperlinked properly?

Are you sure it's the LISTSERV breaking your lines, or your mailer? Most
are configured, correctly so, to wrap outgoing mail. To the best of my
knowledge, the LISTSERV doesn't touch that. I send long lines through the
LISTSERV all the time.


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