David Nebenzahl wrote in
s.com:

A meta-post: question came up recently here about how newsreaders (the
software you're using to read this post) handle long URLs, like this
one:

http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/3...ection/Home/Pr
oducts/Catalog/SteelPipeCoatings/?PC_7_RJH9U5230GE3E02LECFTDQSPK6_nid=P
QS9CR5Z5Fbe13QRJVC6DLgl

I'm using Thunderbird which preserves long URLs without splitting
them, unlike what I call "brain-damaged" news clients like Outlook
Express, which splits and otherwise mangles them. This makes them
useless for clicking on, requiring the reader to copy and paste the
pieces back together; pain in the ass.

But this is on the sending end. The question is whether such links get
split up when they're read.

If your newsreader splits this URL, could you post here and say what
your newsreader is?

And what about Google Groups readers? I assume that GG preserves such
links, but don't know for sure.



Works fine with Xnews, but remember there's several servers between you
and I that might mangle things. For the ultimate conveince, you could
use one of those URL redirection tools, and post the original URL as
well. If you only use the URL redirection tool, you might as well turn
on X-No-Archive, too; the result's the same.

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