I agree entirely with John and I see no reason why one cannot use shortened
URLs.
The Glamorgan Mailing List's website is at
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~glamorgan/
I often use TinyURL - I just tried it out with this long address and here is
the result.
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TinyURL was created!
The following URL:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~glamorgan/
has a length of 60 characters and resulted in the following TinyURL which
has a length of 26 characters:
http://tinyurl.com/7gm4ne4
[Open in new window]
Or, give your recipients confidence with a preview TinyURL:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/7gm4ne4
[Open in new window]
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I do like the preview for those who are cautious.
My best wishes, Jill
Glamorgan Mailing List's website
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~glamorgan/
-----Original Message-----
From: powys-bounces(a)rootsweb.com [mailto:powys-bounces@rootsweb.com] On
Behalf Of John Ball
Sent: 13 July 2012 18:58
To: powys(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: [POWYS] Shortened URLs (formerly "online parish registers")
Dear Listers,
While it's always wise to be cautious about clicking on unfamiliar links,
there are sometimes justifiable reasons why a long URL has been shortened
before including it in an e-mail.
For example, an e-mail program's word-wrapping feature may cause a long URL
to be split onto two lines, especially if the URL contains a hyphen [-].
In such cases, only the first line of the URL may appear as a hot link.
Clicking on a partial link like this usually results in a 'Page not found'
type of error.
Shortening the URL eliminates this problem.
As has been mentioned, there are several companies offering URL shortening
services. The one I prefer is TinyURL (
http://tinyurl.com/) which has been
around for many years. All the shortened URLs generated by TinyURL include
"http://tinyurl.com/" in the URL. For example:
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/group/ukicen/UK_Census_Collection.aspx
is shortened to
http://tinyurl.com/cg7wtgh
As has been mentioned, real spam messages almost always contain either no
supporting text, or text that is badly expressed and/or poorly spelt, or
text which is irrelevant to genealogy.
Kind regards,
John