Following the RFC

[Tollef Fog Heen]

* Daniel Pittman 

| "Dylan McCall" <dylanmccall at gmail.com> writes:
| 
| > Well, you'll never see me posting shortened URLs.
| > ...or following the RFC, for that matter. 
| 
| You might want to follow the MUST part of the RFC, since a wide range of
| mail servers that /are/ standards compliant will reject or otherwise
| mangle your email on the way through.

Given that his mail will probably get MIME encoded and MIME adds
line-breaks where it needs/wants to (and those get removed on
receipt), this probably won't be a problem in practice.

Based on this discussion, I am wondering if there's a market not only
for tinymail type services, but also for something that gives you an
«appropriately-sized» URL, which then includes the domain name it
redirects to, and some more bits, but with a maximum length of < 80 chars
chars.

The eweek URL would then looks something like:

http://murl.no/www.eweek.com...Not-License-Linux-Under-GPL-v3/

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