"David Viles" <dvilesNOSPAM[at]bellsouth.net> writes:

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They are a means of taking long unwieldy URLs and
making them short and suitable for posting here.
Long URLs are difficult sometimes to paste into a
browser's Location bar, and may wrap or have encoding
issues.

Visit http://tinyurl.com for more information.

TinyURL is not recommended because it does not let
the user know where the link will take him. For all
he knows, it's a porn site or other atrocity.

http://makeashorterlink.com is more friendly - when
you make a shorter link there, and someoen clicks on
that link, he gets a page which displays where he'll
be taken and gets the opportunity to not go there.

I also beg everyone to please read the following
page
http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2000/06/14/quoting

I leave that link at the bottom of every one of my
posts. It's a wondeful summary (I didn't write it!)
of how to make your responses and posts in the newsgroup
as easy to read and friendly as possible.

How to quote - please use standard quoting (as opposed
to weird indenting or AOL-style << > > quoting) - and how
to edit - please cut out all the unnecessary stuff and
leave in only enough for context.



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Are you posting responses that are easy for others to follow?
http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2000/06/14/quoting

I'm curious. I've seen tinyurls before. What are they? Point me to a web
page with more info.

Thanks,

David Viles


<BreadWithSpam[at]fractious.net> wrote in message
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======================================= MODERATOR'S COMMENT:
Please trim the post to which you respond.

"HW \"Skip\" Weldon" <skip5700removethis[at]hotmail.com> wrote in message > > Just to clarify for folks, that link takes you to
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Skip, I read the URL and I'd like to read the book. Excellent advice
in the article posted. As to improving the readability of posts, yours
are terse and informative and I have no complaint.

Inquirer

On Sun, 23 May 2004 17:15:10 CST, BreadWithSpam[at]fractious.net wrote:


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Learn something new every day. <grin
If anyone has other suggestions for improving the readability of
posts, feel free to respond here.

-HW "Skip" Weldon
Columbia, SC

"HW \"Skip\" Weldon" <skip5700removethis[at]hotmail.com> writes:

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Just to clarify for folks, that link takes you to

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,120624,00.html

[If you post a link via tinyUrl, it's nice to tell where
it'll take folks. For a link that short, it's not really
necessary anyway]

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Thomas Moore is a man on a mission. A rather ambitious mission. By
reading and following the advice of his book, "Last Chance to Get it
Right!," he aims to help you "create a minimum of $100,000 of
additional financial benefits for you and your family."

And:

Don't forget, this nest egg has got to supply you income with income
increasing for probably 30 years. Guess what? The longer your life
expectancy, the bigger the nest egg you need. Maybe instead of
"leaving it all to the kids and grandchildren," you'll need to spend
down your principal.

Lastly, very relevant to recent, er, somewhat contentious
discussion here about cars:

Or, as Moore would say, "The price of a new car isn't the $30,000
sticker price. It's the lost investment the the $30,000 could have
bought which, over time, could really add up." Translation: If a
30-year-old bought a used car for half that price and invested the
remaining $15,000 at 8 percent a year, it would grow to nearly a
quarter million dollars by the time he/she retired in 35 years.

Might be an interesting book. When folks ask me, as beginners,
what the first book to read is, I still usually suggest Eric
Tyson's books, though.



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Plain Bread alone for e-mail, thanks. The rest gets trashed.
No HTML in E-Mail! -- http://www.expita.com/nomime.html
Are you posting responses that are easy for others to follow?
http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2000/06/14/quoting

I usually don't read financial planning or investment books, but this
review is good and touches on several threads that pop up around here
from time to time.
http://tinyurl.com/27hw9


-HW "Skip" Weldon
Columbia, SC