Something I've used for several years is Tiny URL. When you get one of those ridiculously long URL's, simply copy it, open up the program, paste it in and it creates a shorter URL. It's kind of ironic that the link to that site is a LONG one but I made a Tiny URL out of it also.
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><a href="http://websearch.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=websearch&zu=http%3A%2F%2Ftinyurl.com%2F" target="_blank">http://websearch.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=websearch&zu=http%3A%2F%2Ftinyurl.com%2F
</a><br><br><b><a href="http://tinyurl.com/32cf3" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/32cf3</a><br><br></b><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">Avery Todd<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:01:12, Don <
<a href="mailto:pianotuna@accesscomm.ca" target="_blank">pianotuna@accesscomm.ca
</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi Matt,<br><br>When I tried the link this is what I got. I did also try to cut and paste it.
<br><br>Google<br>Error<br><br><br> Not Found<br> The requested URL<br>/books/pdf/History_of_the_American_Pianoforte.pdf?id=Qr4xAAAAMAAJ&output=pdf<br>&sig=Ub95d1grEMDGpAC-xtNdnzZVtos was not found on this server.
<br><br>At 12:44 PM 1/11/2008 -0500, you wrote:<br>>This link works:<br>><br>><a href="http://books.google.com/books/pdf/History_of_the_American_Pianoforte.pdf?id=Qr4xAAAAMAAJ&output=pdf&sig=Ub95d1grEMDGpAC-xtNdnzZVtos" target="_blank">
http://books.google.com/books/pdf/History_of_the_American_Pianoforte.pdf?id<br>=Qr4xAAAAMAAJ&output=pdf&sig=Ub95d1grEMDGpAC-xtNdnzZVtos</a><br>><br>>Surely the email server is going to word-wrap the above link, so you might
<br>have to cut-and-paste the actual link address together and poste it onto<br>your browser. You must also be careful to delete the ">" symbols that will<br>likely be generated at the start of each new line.
<br>><br>>Matt<br><div>><br>><br>>-----Original Message-----<br>><br>>><br>>>May I ask you to paste the link that is created when you click Download<br>>>PDF? Thanks in advance.
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