[Web4lib] Gutenberg Parenthesis

[Robert L. Balliot]

Grief = user has to teidiously cut and paste the line-broken URL back
into one line / get a 404 when they do click onto the link.

LOL 
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Robert L. Balliot
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Bristol, Rhode Island
http://oceanstatelibrarian.com/contact.htm
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-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Brian Tingle
Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2010 4:14 PM
To: Robert Balliot
Cc: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Gutenberg Parenthesis

One line < ~78 characters
us all = people with email clients that put line breaks into links
that are longer than the page width (my outlook client at work, the
email client on my phone)
Grief = user has to teidiously cut and paste the line-broken URL back
into one line / get a 404 when they do click onto the link.

Sent from my iPhone

On Nov 21, 2010, at 3:01 PM, Robert Balliot <rballiot at gmail.com> wrote:

> Lloyd,
>
> Please define 'one line', 'us all', and 'grief'.  The context makes no
> sense.
>
> R. Balliot
> http://oceanstatelibrarian.com
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Lloyd Davidson <ldavids at northwestern.edu
> >wrote:
>
>> For those who had trouble with the broken URL for the Gutenberg
>> Project
>> paper, try:
>> http://tinyurl.com/293uute
>>
>> Please, when you post long URLs, transform them first into a shorter
>> version that fits on one line.  It saves us all a lot of grief.
>>
>> L.
>>
>> On Nov 21, 2010, at 12:34 PM, Robert L. Balliot wrote:
>>
>>> <
>>
http://www.sdu.dk/Om_SDU/Institutter_centre/Ilkm/Forskning/Forskningsprojek
>>> ter/Gutenberg_projekt/PositionPaper>
>>
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