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"Gollum" wrote in message
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Go Here


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...7/nbul17.xml&s
Sheet=/news/2004/04/17/ixhome.html#2



More in-depth here
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/traffi...=Evening%20Sta
ndard


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"Roger the cabin boy" wrote in message
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...7/nbul17.xml&s
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http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/traffi...=Evening%20Sta
ndard



This has been a topic of discussion amongst a large number of LU operations
staff, none of whom give this pillock any support whatsoever. The consensus
appears to be that the sooner he is discussing new opportunities with the
Jobcentre staff the better for all concerned.


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"Roger the cabin boy" wrote in message
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"Gollum" wrote in message
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Go Here



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...7/nbul17.xml&s
Sheet=/news/2004/04/17/ixhome.html#2



More in-depth here

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/traffi...=Evening%20Sta
ndard


Chaps,

Both links have wrapped round and are unusable without cutting and pasting
them first. This is a right royal pain in the arse! ;-)

Please learn to use tools such as www.makeashorterlink.com when posting long
links to newsgroups.

For the benefit of those who cannot link to the above, they can be accessed
via

http://makeashorterlink.com/?B35C24018

and

http://makeashorterlink.com/?E68C12018

respectively.

Thanks!



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Jack Taylor wrote:
Both links have wrapped round and are unusable without
cutting and pasting them first. This is a right royal
pain in the arse! ;-)


Please learn to use tools such as www.makeashorterlink.com
when posting long links to newsgroups.


I agree. But the original link should always be included
as well -- it tells you what the document is and where it's
from, which is helpful for many reasons, since (eg) you might
not want to visit that sort of site at all. Also, the
shorter.link might expire or die after some time period
(whether they claim permanence or not), in which case the real
url is invaluable.

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In article , Jack Taylor
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Both links have wrapped round and are unusable without cutting and pasting
them first. This is a right royal pain in the arse! ;-)


This is one reason why links should always be placed in ... brackets;
it makes it easier for software to detect where they start and end.

Thus:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...04/17/nbul17.x
ml&sSheet=/news/2004/04/17/ixhome.html#2 should work for you.

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"Clive D. W. Feather" wrote in message
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This is one reason why links should always be placed in ... brackets;
it makes it easier for software to detect where they start and end.

Thus:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...04/17/nbul17.x
ml&sSheet=/news/2004/04/17/ixhome.html#2 should work for you.


Sadly not, Clive. It still wraps around in the same manner (see above). TBH,
if people don't put links through a link shortener I generally can't be
bothered to read them but, on this occasion, I was simply curious to find
out what the subject matter was, as there was no summary in the text.


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In article , Jack Taylor
writes
Thus:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...04/17/nbul17.x
ml&sSheet=/news/2004/04/17/ixhome.html#2 should work for you.


Sadly not, Clive. It still wraps around in the same manner (see above).


Even if it wraps, software should be capable of using it. I just
checked, and Turnpike quite happily identified the whole link in my
post.

Of course, once you insert quote marks in the middle that stops working.

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Clive D. W. Feather wrote:

In article , Jack Taylor
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Both links have wrapped round and are unusable without cutting and pasting
them first. This is a right royal pain in the arse! ;-)



This is one reason why links should always be placed in ... brackets;
it makes it easier for software to detect where they start and end.

Thus:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...04/17/nbul17.x
ml&sSheet=/news/2004/04/17/ixhome.html#2 should work for you.

For some reason, the links in the original post worked (didn't wrap);
the quoted ones in the replies didn't (did wrap); and Clive's one
didn't. Strange...

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On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Jack Taylor wrote:

"Roger the cabin boy" wrote in message
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"Gollum" wrote in message
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.../ixhome.html#2


More in-depth here
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/traffi...ing%20Standard


Both links have wrapped round and are unusable without cutting and
pasting them first. This is a right royal pain in the arse! ;-)

Please learn to use tools such as www.makeashorterlink.com when posting
long links to newsgroups.


Or learn the ancient art of Url Fu, and strip out the surplus gunk:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...7/nbul17.xml#2

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/traffic/articles/10271964

How's that?

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