Interview with Paul Frields about Fedora 12 and the Fedora community

Bob McConnell rmcconne at lightlink.com
Thu Nov 19 01:50:05 UTC 2009


D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> | From: Dave Stevens <geek at uniserve.com>
> 
> | Quoting Bruce Byfield <bbyfield at axion.net>:
> | 
> | >In case anyone is interested;
> | >
> | >http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3848891/Building-On-Ramps-
> | >on-the-Fedora-12-Highway.htm
> | 
> | Bruce, you gotta use tinyurl.
> 
> Is there an easy way to see what a tinyurl points to without actually
> going there?  I don't like disguised URLs.
> 
> What Bruce needs is a Mail User Agent that doesn't fold lines that
> shouldn't be folded.  I don't know if he can tame his MUA,
> KMail/1.12.2.
> 
> I think that alpine is OK:
>   http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3848891/Building-On-Ramps-on-the-Fedora-12-Highway.htm
> 

The other option is to put angle brackets around the long URL. Many 
clients will pick up the full line inside them even if it is folded.

<http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3848891/Building-On-Ramps-on-the-Fedora-12-Highway.htm>

Bob McConnell
N2SPP




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