[Fmpro] Link, another try

[Christopher Alpiar]

I think you have busted a myth lol.

Unfortunately the bracket does no such thing. Some mail programs are  
going to cut any string at a certain number of characters regardless,  
others will strip anything looking like an html tag (< ). There is no  
cure-all I can assure you. The best thing to do however is to hit the  
return key after you paste a link in, a carriage return in the email  
often helps keep a URL intact. The other option is to use on of those  
websites that makes aliases for you that keeps the link under the  
average length where many of those pesky mail clients will cut off the  
string and force it on the next line. Especially when someone replies  
from a cell phone or PDA where the maximum characters is severely  
limited per line, then it just gets ugly. Best advice is for your own  
links in your websites, keep them as short as possible, never use  
spaces, and always make everything lower case. But as for reprinting  
crazy long links in email if it breaks in the middle like this

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0071591583/ref=amb_link_6595252_1?

pf_rd_m 
= 
ATVPDKIKX0DER 
&pf_rd_s 
= 
center 
-7 
&pf_rd_r 
=1SQXZCD20EVT0MDW4VMQ&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=379327401&pf_rd_i=507846

double check when you paste it in and find the place that there is any  
space or tab and reconnect the lines. Sometimes there can be a space  
(as in from the spacebar) and its at the line-break so it isnt  
obvious, making it even more tricky...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0071591583/ref=amb_link_6595252_1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-7&pf_rd_r=1SQXZCD20EVT0MDW4VMQ&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=379327401&pf_rd_i=507846

This should let your link stay in tact

The last thing to do is to use Notepad or a similar text editor and  
copy and past the parts together to form one single string and then  
paste it in your browser, tho that is a pain.


Christopher Kennedy Alpiar
Cinematic Composer
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On Apr 4, 2008, at 3:41 PM, James Ryan wrote:

> How do you like that.  It appears the FMPRO server strips imbedded
> links.  Guess we're back to the brackets.  The embedded links do work,
> however when emailing directly to a person's email address.
>
> J
>
>
> On Apr 4, 2008, at 3:36 PM, James Ryan wrote:
>
>> I just tried it sending the email directly to myself instead of to  
>> the
>> FMPRO and it worked.  I'm going to try it again here with a new  
>> email,
>> not a reply to see if it works.  Try this:
>>
>> Google
>>
>> If anyone is even interested in this, please let me know if the above
>> word does in fact take you to Google.  Of course I will know the
>> minute it comes back to me via the FMPRO, but I'm curious if anyone
>> else has the problem.
>>
>> James
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