Can you please shorten urls in email...

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When we get notifications about subscribed forum posts, the urls are so long that they line wrap and have to be put back together, sometimes not even working then. Could you use something like TinyUrl to shorten them before emailing?

Melissa Rhiannon
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I do not like that idea... :( I will not open a link from an E-Mail that does not have the full address... This lets me know the full address and that it is from CC.
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I agree 100% with SirAGE on that, I don't hardly ever open links from tinyurl or anything like that if it comes in an email as it's not safe anymore to do that. If I don't have the full "real" address (and yes I check the headers and source a lot for that too) I don't click it unless I'm expecting something in particular from someone and they tell me they are going to do that.
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So make the beginning of the url say from CC, and shorten the rest.

For example
http://www.coffeecup.com/forums/suggest … ase...4972
( the last part being the post number? )
Melissa Rhiannon
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So you think a spammer or someone sending out viruses to cause agro won't come into the CC forum, and send out some emails from an alias with the CC beginning to make it look like its genuin

Aliases are easily set up, i know I had a spammer do an alias of my business email address, and sent out thousands of infected emails :: i had comunications from some of the recipients :(
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It is a sad thing Viv, yet it happens everyday... I tend not to click links in an E-Mail, but sometimes I do. . .
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