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nagasiva writes:
> jonadab:
> > That still leaves the problem of URLs that are longer
> > than 80 characters... I've never found a good solution
>
>
http://www.longwinded.com/users/www_links/phoojawidge/sorcery.and.ninjutsu.h
tml,
>
> 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.

There's also the new Make A Shorter Link service, which can turn

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312244037/frequentlaskedqu

into

http://makeashorterlink.com/?U6FA22F5

It works only for HTTP and HTTPS URL's, though.

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 e=sc^3 (shiva@io.com) Earl Cooley III
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