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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 30 Jan 2004.
Re: Undocumented Outlook Express feature

Re: Undocumented Outlook Express feature

Marco Maier Said wrote:
>>Please post shorter URLs, by the way:
>>http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q165/5/31.asp
> 
> 
> Why?

(Long answer)

That URL is ok because it is only 62 characters but...

Put simply, long URLs have a nasty habit of wrapping, rendering them 
useless in usenet discussion groups.

Surprisingly, some people still use text based usenet readers that are 
viewed on a 80x40 text-only screen.  This is why most readers, 
(graphical and text,) are configured to wrap at 72 columns.

72 character columns---------------------------------------------------
                                                                        |
                                                                        V
          1         2         3         4         5         6         7
123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012

For long URLs that can't be shortened, two services have been created to 
shorten the URLs for you:

http://makeashorterlink.com
http://tinyurl.com

Wrapping can also be a problem with wide ASCII arts,
if the artist does not configure their usenet client
properly, their wide ASCII drawings will look really
bad, because everything will have been force-wrapped
before it reaches the rest of the group, even if the
usenet software on the other end can show wide text.

ObASCII: the start button

.---------.
| ~ Start |  <-- Click here to begin
'---------'

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