David Nebenzahl wrote:
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...1 3QRJVC6DLgl


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.


The problem with links may just be a setting in the news/mail reader. I
was a holdout for Netscape to the bitter end. Just got a new computer,
tried and discarded Mozilla and Opera. Thunderbird works great for me.
There is a setting in T'bird for wrapping text at x number of
characters, using plain text.... that would break up a normal link, it
seems.

Netscape had an "insert" function for links that preserved long links.
I haven't paid attention to the current set-up for T'bird, whether it
sends to newsgroups in plain or html. Looks like plain )