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Offline PaulineJ

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Shortening URL's (Links)
« on: Monday 11 September 06 16:00 BST (UK) »

I've had a search, honest.

Can someone point me to the instructions for shortening over-long links?

Pauline
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Re: Shortening URL's (Links)
« Reply #1 on: Monday 11 September 06 16:04 BST (UK) »
Hi Pauline

Here it is.

http://www.rootschat.com/links/

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Re: Shortening URL's (Links)
« Reply #2 on: Monday 11 September 06 16:48 BST (UK) »

or you could use  http://tinyurl.com/

that is read as "tiny url"   ;D

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Re: Shortening URL's (Links)
« Reply #3 on: Monday 11 September 06 17:39 BST (UK) »
Nothing against tinyurl, but one reason we are promoting http://www.rootschat.com/links/ is that if someone reports a broken link to us, it is easier for us to do something about it if all the details are on RootsChat.

see
Topic: Shrinking Very Long Website Links
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,134417.0.html

here is another possibility:
Topic: Post too W--I--D--E!
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,111822.0.html


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