META: URL forwarder service

Michael Wiik (mwiik@messagenet.com)
Sat, 19 Jun 1999 14:55:06 -0400

Here's something I hope might be useful when including long URLs in list postings. I use a mailer (Netscape's Communicator email client) which hyperlinks any URLs in messages. Problems arise on occassion with a real long URL, as it breaks onto a new line and the hyperlinked URL doesn't work.

See:
http://www.messagenet.com/fw/

The above page will provide you with a short URL which will redirect to an entered URL.

This is intended for extropians and a couple of other mailing lists I'm on, and is not advertised to the general public. The short URLs are available first-come first-served, and will be reused at some point, so don't rely on these for permanent bookmarks.

Thanks,

-Mike 

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Michael Wiik
Principal
Messagenet Communications Research
Washington DC Area Internet and WWW Consultants
http://messagenet.com
mwiik@messagenet.com


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