[Leica] Dear Alastair and other Mac ussers

[firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin)]

Sorry for being ignorant: I've not noticed a problem in the past, but  
I'll be good in the future.

Cheers and thanks
On 21/11/2006, at 4:13, Brian Reid wrote:

> Almost every URL posted to the LUG by Mac users is broken in half.  
> Sometimes I have the patience to reconstruct it so I can look at  
> your pictures, but often I don't. Now is one of those "don't" times.
>
> The Mac mail program has a command that inserts URLs into a message  
> without breaking them. (Outlook should be so lucky). It would be  
> awfully good if you could use it. The energy that you put into  
> posting pictures is wasted if nobody can look at them because your  
> URLs are broken. About 95% of the URLs that Alastair has posted in  
> the last month have been broken. Other Mac posters have similar  
> numbers.
>
> Under the Edit menu, there is an "Add Hyperlink" command. Please  
> please please get in the habit of using it so that the rest of us  
> can see your pictures. Or else use tinyurl or make-a-shorter-link.
>
> Outlook users need to put <> characters around their URLs or else  
> use tinyurl or make-a-shorter-link.
>
> Brian Reid
> Saloon Keeper.
>
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