jonadab:
> That still leaves the problem of URLs that are longer
> than 80 characters... I've never found a good solution
> for that one. Currently I post them alone on a line
> but not wrapped (Gnus warns but will allow this), but
> I know that a not-insignificant percentage of users
> will see them wrapped anyway when their own newsreader
> gets ahold of them. Worse, in many cases the first
> part will be made a "link" (which of course won't
> retrieve the right thing without the second part).
> I guess that's what the HTML version of the FAQ is
> for...
that's the value of owning the domain in question, as one might then
construct symbolic links in UNIX to reduce the HTML address length
(e.g., changing an unwieldy URL like:
http://www.luckymojo.com/esoteric/religion/african/diasporic/vodou/faq/
to
http://www.luckymojo.com/vodou/faq )
locating everything top level as 'FAQs' has also occasonally been valuable:
http://www.luckymojo.com/faqs/faq.vodou-.9906
but if you don't control the domain, and, for example, construct directories
for others in which some of the URLs are listed, making, as you suggested,
the linkname be the URL (I've known many FAQ and REF designers to use this
style), then there is a convention I have seen, though I don't know of
its prevalence at present, that may help:
http://www.longwinded.com/users/www_links/phoojawidge/sorcery.and.ninjutsu.html,
might be listed like this:
http://www.longwinded.com/users/www_links/->
phoojawidge/sorcery.and.ninjutsu.html,
and even broken as such, made into a link to the site.
nagasiva
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