[thelist] long urls in email

noah noah at tookish.net
Wed Oct 17 12:34:46 CDT 2001


I've written a simple mailing list program. The subscription / 
unsubscription process involves users getting emails like this:

**********
To confirm your subscription please visit:

http://www.domain.com/newsletter/index.php?type=subscribe&execute=true&action=finalconfirmation&id=473&key=1977645638

**********

I'm concerned about the link wrapping.

I read somewhere that surrounding the link in "<" and ">" will keep it from 
wrapping (or at least, even if it appears to wrap, clicking on it will 
transfer the entire url to the browser).

Google isn't helping me to confirm this. I presume that different email 
clients handle this differently.

Can anyone offer any insight?

Thanks very much,
Noah





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