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...

Wouldn't be an issue if people used proper newsreaders ;-)

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:-
http://snipurl.com/1stsd Much better.
I don't expect those using OE or any other newsreader that wont accept
long
addresses to have to fiddle with a link I provide, so I make it a simple
one
click operation.

Or even better - use the nickname function, like I've done he

http://snipurl.com/sillyfiesta

Potentially handy should you ever need to give someone a url over the phone
as well.

Peter

"AstraVanMan" wrote in message
...
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...

Wouldn't be an issue if people used proper newsreaders ;-)

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:-
http://snipurl.com/1stsd Much better.
I don't expect those using OE or any other newsreader that wont accept
long
addresses to have to fiddle with a link I provide, so I make it a simple
one
click operation.

Or even better - use the nickname function, like I've done he

http://snipurl.com/sillyfiesta

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.

--
Dan
Mk1 Clio V6

Douglas Payne wrote:

Wouldn't be an issue if people used proper newsreaders ;-)

So why don't you use one?

Heretic.

Just because Soup is beyond you ;-)
--
SteveH 'You're not a real petrolhead unless you've owned an Alfa Romeo'
www.italiancar.co.uk - Honda VFR800 - Hongdou GY200 - Alfa 75 TSpark
Alfa 156 TSpark - B6 Passat 2.0TDI SE - COSOC KOTL
BOTAFOT #87 - BOTAFOF #18 - MRO # - UKRMSBC #7 - Apostle #2 - YTC #

SteveH wrote:
PC Paul wrote:

AstraVanMan wrote:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1983-FORD-FIES...H-A-DIFFERENCE
_W0QQitemZ200165808415QQihZ010QQcategoryZ29755QQss PageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQc
mdZViewItem

Snort!

BTW, if you put Ebay links in like http://search.ebay.com/200165808415
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.


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...

Wouldn't be an issue if people used proper newsreaders ;-)

So why don't you use one?

--
Douglas

"Douglas Payne" wrote in message
...
SteveH wrote:
PC Paul wrote:

AstraVanMan wrote:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1983-FORD-FIES...H-A-DIFFERENCE
_W0QQitemZ200165808415QQihZ010QQcategoryZ29755QQss PageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQc
mdZViewItem

Snort!

BTW, if you put Ebay links in like
http://search.ebay.com/200165808415
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.


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...

Wouldn't be an issue if people used proper newsreaders ;-)

So why don't you use one?


Mac.

--
The DervMan
www.dervman.com

DervMan wrote:

Wouldn't be an issue if people used proper newsreaders ;-)

So why don't you use one?


Mac.

You might want to check the machine Doug is posting from.
--
SteveH 'You're not a real petrolhead unless you've owned an Alfa Romeo'
www.italiancar.co.uk - Honda VFR800 - Hongdou GY200 - Alfa 75 TSpark
Alfa 156 TSpark - B6 Passat 2.0TDI SE - COSOC KOTL
BOTAFOT #87 - BOTAFOF #18 - MRO # - UKRMSBC #7 - Apostle #2 - YTC #

SteveH wrote:
DervMan wrote:

Wouldn't be an issue if people used proper newsreaders ;-)
So why don't you use one?

Mac.

You might want to check the machine Doug is posting from.

Uh oh. I've been outed as another HappyMac apologist.

I use Thunderbird for NNTP on my Mac and Windows. The UIs are similar
enough for it not to matter and it suits my relatively pedestrian
Usenetting tendencies. It also has the added advantage of knowing what
the ****ing time is when the clocks change. (c;

I did fire up Soup just to prove that I did know how to work it, but I
remembered why I don't use it - it's cos I can't work it. (c:

--
Douglas

"Douglas Payne" wrote in message
...
SteveH wrote:
DervMan wrote:

Wouldn't be an issue if people used proper newsreaders ;-)
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.

snip

--
The DervMan
www.dervman.com

DervMan wrote:

"Douglas Payne" wrote in message
...
SteveH wrote:
DervMan wrote:

Wouldn't be an issue if people used proper newsreaders ;-)
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.

It was a pretty ****ing stupid response, wasn't it?

Sniping at someone for using a Mac when the person they were having a
bit of banter with also uses one.

--
SteveH 'You're not a real petrolhead unless you've owned an Alfa Romeo'
www.italiancar.co.uk - Honda VFR800 - Hongdou GY200 - Alfa 75 TSpark
Alfa 156 TSpark - B6 Passat 2.0TDI SE - COSOC KOTL
BOTAFOT #87 - BOTAFOF #18 - MRO # - UKRMSBC #7 - Apostle #2 - YTC #

On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:43:01 -0000, "Mike G"
wrote:

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:-
http://snipurl.com/1stsd Much better.

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.