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[Greg Warner]

Which email client are you using (e.g. gmail, outlook)?


On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 11:23 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was wondering how they do it in email.
>
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
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> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Bryan O'Neal <
> Bryan.ONeal at theonealandassociates.com> wrote:
>
>> Most services have an API. Even x.co has one.
>>  On May 7, 2014 5:13 PM, "James Dugger" <james.dugger at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> ​What is the context of the use case, website you are creating, or save
>>> typing (CLI)?  If it is a website, is it static (html only) or dynamic
>>> (PHP, Python, ASP.NET)?  Where is the site hosted, locally (you), ISP
>>> (Cox, CentruryLink, etc), hosting company (Hostmonster, GoDaddy, etc).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> welll, that's not quite what I meant.
>>>>
>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> nope, I don't. Oh well. Thanks.
>>>>>
>>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Matt Graham <mhgraham at crow202.org>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2014-05-07 12:44, Michael Havens wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> How do I I condense long urls ? You know, the 'click here' where the
>>>>>>> 'here' is a link to your address.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If you meant "I want to link to http://www.giantitp.com/
>>>>>> forums/showthread.php?t=59834 (silly post about the Beige Dragon)
>>>>>> but the giantitp link is a whole lot to type.  I'd rather use something
>>>>>> like http://crow202.org/22 ," then you would use a URL shortener.
>>>>>>  There are a bunch of them.  bit.ly and goo.gl are popular IIRC.
>>>>>>  These things usually end up giving you " http://goo.gl/654321 ",
>>>>>> and if you go there, the server there looks up 654321 in a huge table and
>>>>>> gives you a 301 redirect to http://example.com/a/really/
>>>>>> huge/long/location/ .
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I wrote my own because it was a fairly easy thing to do, and all the
>>>>>> extant publicly-usable URL shorteners almost certainly use tracking cookies
>>>>>> and/or piles of JS garbage.  You probably don't have a webhost to put a URL
>>>>>> shortener on though.
>>>>>>
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