Re: password in filename?

Leon,

You might consider using the services at tinyurl.com -- you can feed it
a url of any length, and it will reduce it to a permanent very short link.

For instance, http://www.forth.com (which admittedly isn't very long)
shortens to http://tinyurl.com/25nzr8 . Urls of any length will shorten
to a string of this size.

rick

On 1/17/08, Appert, Kevin <kevin.appert_at_lmco.com> wrote:
> There'll always be folks with goofy email clients I guess. Most
> versions of Outlook, Eudora, Thunderbird and the like will recognize
> links flagged this way. I'd be interested to know what kind of client
> doesn't work with this.
>
> >Send HTML format?
> Some folks ONLY read their email with readers that don't process HTML.
> Sending HTML opens its own cans of Coelenterata.
>
> I guess you're left with tinyurl or some solution where you make a short
> alias that you resolve on your own server to a longer pathname. You can
> see this sort of thing at a number of freeware, shareware and support
> sites.
>
> If you send someone to forth.com/authorize to fill in a short form with
> a password you can then send them on to their download. If your
> download doesn't start within 10 seconds click here.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sftalk-bounce_at_forth.com [mailto:sftalk-bounce_at_forth.com] On Behalf
> Of Leon Wagner
> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 3:58 PM
> To: sftalk_at_forth.com
> Subject: [sftalk] Re: password in filename?
>
> That's interesting, but I wonder where you got it from. I have been
> told by various people to surround the link with exactly "< "
> before and " >" after. Mixed results (works for some, but not others).
> Also tried "<< " and " >>". Still no go. Then I tried
> your version, "<<< " and " >>>" and still people complain that links are
> coming to them broken. So I don't think there is a
> universal way to coax a long URL through email in "plaintext" without
> the possibility that it will get fragged. Send HTML format?
> Yuk.
>
> --LW
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: sftalk-bounce_at_forth.com [mailto:sftalk-bounce_at_forth.com] On
> Behalf Of Appert, Kevin
> > Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 3:20 PM
> > To: sftalk_at_forth.com
> > Subject: [sftalk] Re: password in filename?
> >
> > Consider surrounding links like this: <<<yourlink>>>
> >
> > Most email clients are able to discern this as a contiguous link and
> you
> > won't have to cut and paste. Alternatively, you can use
> > <<<www.tinyurl.com>>> to make a tiny URL out of your long one.
> >
> > Here's an example.
> > <<<http://home.comcast.net/~forther/DSCN0011.JPG>>>
> >
> > Leon, did you ever see this picture?
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: sftalk-bounce_at_forth.com [mailto:sftalk-bounce_at_forth.com] On
> Behalf
> > Of Ron Oliver
> > Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 2:29 PM
> > To: sftalk_at_forth.com
> > Subject: [sftalk] Re: password in filename?
> >
> > Stefan Schmiedl wrote:
> > > On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:18:46 -0500
> > > Ron Oliver <ron_at_forth.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> You'll be emailed a download path
> > >> http://www.forth.com/downloads/SwiftForth-Win32-full-3.1.0-<a bunch
> > of
> > >> letters and numbers>.exe
> > >
> > > which, if I may add, arrived broken across two lines at my place.
> > > I actually had to copy seven characters over by hand :-)
> >
> > No good deed goes unpunished! I'll look into that.
> > --
> > Ron Oliver
> > Consulting Engineer
> > FORTH, Inc.
> > www.forth.com
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