[or-roots] Long URLs

Cecil Houk cchouk at cox.net
Sat Feb 15 09:03:33 PST 2003


Many times when a long URL is included in the text of a message,
created with Outlook Express for example, the link becomes broken.
The fix offered is to "copy and paste" the pieces into the address box
of your browser.  The fix is to stop it from happening in the first place.
I will adress only Outlook Express 6.0.

When Outlook Express is installed on a computer, the line length of
"Plain Text" messages SENT defaults to 76 characters.  Many URLs
are much longer than this.  The result is a fragmented hyper-link for
the URL.

What to do:


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