RichText editor ,Broken Links

[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
90 PT40 "Blue Thunder"
Posting today by satellite from Lexington, Virginia
My location: http://www.bbirdmaps.com/user2.cfm?user=1

>
>.--- 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.