RichText editor ,Broken Links

[Gregory OConnor]

Don, what's the advantage of receiving TextOnly? and how do you choose
that? I noticed on the forum home page the post are text only until
you open it up. (you can see the html as in your copy below).

Tiny URL is no good because the phrase expires in a month or so.

When I find one of those broken URL's -I highlight the URL backwards.
Holding down left mouse I move backwards over and paint the entire
url ;hit "Ctrl" with "C" ;then paste it in the address line. (if you
try and paint it forward, it will attempt to open the link.)

If that doesnt work, I do the same but start by copying a non url
symbol ;then paste ;than delete the non url symbol ;then hit 'go'.


.--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "Don Bradner"
wrote:
>
> Can you tell from my copy below that your solution didn't work here?
At least for those of us who choose to receive only text, nothing will
work for a long URL except pasting it back together or using tinyurl.
>

[Don Bradner]

On 9/14/2008 at 2:52 PM Gregory OConnor wrote:

>Don, what's the advantage of receiving TextOnly? and how do you choose
>that? I noticed on the forum home page the post are text only until
>you open it up. (you can see the html as in your copy below).

I do not use any html for e-mail, period. It is one of the many aspects to
"super-safe" computing, which I practice carefully. I do not use a firewall or
any AV program and all of the baggage (and false sense of security) that comes
with them. I KNOW I'm not secure, so have to follow very careful procedures.

I've never used Outlook for all of the same reasons; I use an old program called
Courier that used to be called Calypso, and with it selecting text only is not a
problem.

>Tiny URL is no good because the phrase expires in a month or so.
>
>When I find one of those broken URL's -I highlight the URL backwards.
>Holding down left mouse I move backwards over and paint the entire
>url ;hit "Ctrl" with "C" ;then paste it in the address line. (if you
>try and paint it forward, it will attempt to open the link.)
>
> If that doesnt work, I do the same but start by copying a non url
>symbol ;then paste ;than delete the non url symbol ;then hit 'go'.

I simply rebuild the wrapped ones in Notepad.

Don Bradner
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>
>.--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "Don Bradner"
> wrote:
>>
>> Can you tell from my copy below that your solution didn't work here?
>At least for those of us who choose to receive only text, nothing will
>work for a long URL except pasting it back together or using tinyurl.