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Worst modded car..... ever!
Oct 28, 2007
36 Replies
You are so wrong. That verges on artcar.
Wouldn't be an issue if people used proper newsreaders ;-)
Snort!
BTW, if you put Ebay links in like then you don't get any hassle with crap newsreaders botching the link...
Tell you what'd be handy - if eBay actually provided a shorter link in that sort of format at some point on the auction as a simple "copy + paste friendly link" so people could just do the "copy shortcut" on the right click menu on IE (as that's what most people use) to share stuff.
Peter
Feel free to mention it to them. They're well known for responding immediately and with full attention to comments from their customers.
Oh, wait...
s**te
Not that old chestnut again. If a link is provided, it makes sense for it to be in a form that is easily accepted by most newsreaders, which is why I always use 'SnipURL' for long addresses. Yours becomes:-
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Much better.I don't expect those using OE or any other newsreader that wont accept longaddresses to have to fiddle with a link I provide, so I make it a simple oneclick operation. You may not like it, but OE is still a 'proper newsreader' and one in very common usage. It does everything I want it to do, so why should I change it? Mike.
Why should I do that to satisfy users of broken newsreaders?
Because it's broken and doesn't comply with several different usenet standards.
Or even better - use the nickname function, like I've done here:
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Potentially handy should you ever need to give someone a url over the phone as well.
Peter
Or even better again, just put arrows round the ends of the link < > style.
Heretic.
Just because Soup is beyond you ;-)
So why don't you use one?
Mac.
You might want to check the machine Doug is posting from.
To SteveH: only if I were anal enough to care.
Problem with those is people don't know where that link is actually going to go, and in these malware rife times, it asking for trouble to be reading the likes of usenet and be clicking on people's tinyurl/snipurl posts.
Use tinyurl and turn "preview" on.
clive
I daresay the father is dead because the fashion police dragged him off and shot him.
Fraser
Doesn't solve the problem whatsoever.
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