Re: URL's

From: Ron Sommer (rsommer_at_nospam.ktis.net)
Date: 04/24/04

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Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 06:06:14 -0500

"Paul Smith" <Paul@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> "Allan" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:3ae001c429e7$75d64f60$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> > I am wondering, maybe this is not even the right place to
> > bring it up, but how do you change a url so that it may
> > not be so long and say to be able to just say "click
> > here". I run into this alot when trying to send url's to
> > people and they seem to be really long ones and was just
> > wondering if there was an easy way of just changing the
> > url to say click here.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/ is pretty good, they'll basically give you a shorter
> URL, and then when the user clicks it automatically forward.
>
> If you mean to do it with HTML, in say an HTML e-mail the code would be:
>
> http://www.smirnov.demon.co.uk/ > http://www.doom3portal.com/ A Doom 3 fansite. > http://www.dasmirnov.net/articles/sp2preview.htm Service Pack 2 is coming! > > *Replace nospam with smirnov to reply by e-mail* > > >