From: Stan Brown Newsgroups: rec.arts.books.tolkien,alt.fan.tolkien Subject: URLs for Google references (Re: The Folly of Gildor, revisited) Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 11:14:59 -0500 Organization: Oak Road Systems Message-ID: References: <3DC46677.1F0E8989@mira.dur.ac.uk> X-Newsreader: MicroPlanet Gravity v2.60 X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 30 Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news.imp.ch!news.imp.ch!news.stealth.net!news.stealth.net!telocity-west!TELOCITY!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-06!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch rec.arts.books.tolkien:98122 Cave Troll wrote in rec.arts.books.tolkien: >This error by Gildor has been discussed in the thread: >http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=0hWh4th31p4r3TH331V35%40cirithUU.edu&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dfolly%2Bof%2Bgildor%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26selm%3D0hWh4th31p4r3TH331V35%2540cirithUU.edu%26rnum%3D1 > >the main post is included below: >http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=0hWh4th31p4r3TH331V35%40cirithUU.edu&output=gplain Thanks for posting these. You might like to know that Google articles and threads can be referred to by shorter URLs. After the "groups?", delete everything except "threadm=" and the article ID for a thread, or "selm=" and the article ID for a specific article. The above URLs could be shortened as >http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=0hWh4th31p4r3TH331V35%40cirithUU.edu >http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=0hWh4th31p4r3TH331V35%40cirithUU.edu Still longish, but at least more nearly manageable. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Cortland County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com Tolkien FAQs: http://Tolkien.slimy.com (Steuard Jensen's site) Tolkien letters FAQ: http://users.telerama.com/~taliesen/tolkien/lettersfaq.html FAQ of the Rings: http://oakroadsystems.com/genl/ringfaq.htm Encyclopedia of Arda: http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/default.htm more FAQs: http://oakroadsystems.com/tech/faqget.htm ###### From: Flame of the West Newsgroups: rec.arts.books.tolkien,alt.fan.tolkien Subject: Re: URLs for Google references (Re: The Folly of Gildor, revisited) Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2002 11:55:05 -0500 Lines: 18 Message-ID: <3DC554E8.6958C978@nospam.solinas.org> References: <3DC46677.1F0E8989@mira.dur.ac.uk> Reply-To: FotW@nospam.solinas.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: UmFuZG9tSVYpQd2Wl7la+jc2CIQ1vIyOMu39rYK00tQ26my4XpjsH462W0inOqZc X-Complaints-To: abuse@rcn.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 3 Nov 2002 16:55:48 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 (Macintosh; I; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news.imp.ch!news.imp.ch!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed2.news.rcn.net!feed1.news.rcn.net!rcn!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch rec.arts.books.tolkien:98110 Stan Brown wrote: > The above URLs could be shortened as > > >http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=0hWh4th31p4r3TH331V35%40cirithUU.edu > >http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=0hWh4th31p4r3TH331V35%40cirithUU.edu > > Still longish, but at least more nearly manageable. Isn't there some magical Website that will produced shortened URLs? -- -- FotW The Marmite FAQ http://www.gty.org/~phil/marmite.htm ###### From: "Mads P. R. Jorgensen" Newsgroups: rec.arts.books.tolkien,alt.fan.tolkien References: <3DC46677.1F0E8989@mira.dur.ac.uk> <3DC554E8.6958C978@nospam.solinas.org> Subject: Re: URLs for Google references (Re: The Folly of Gildor, revisited) Lines: 9 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Message-ID: <97ix9.708$oC3.86041@news010.worldonline.dk> Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 00:14:40 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.237.88.178 X-Complaints-To: news-abuse@wol.dk X-Trace: news010.worldonline.dk 1036365381 213.237.88.178 (Mon, 04 Nov 2002 00:16:21 MET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 00:16:21 MET Organization: Customer of Tiscali A/S Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news.imp.ch!news.imp.ch!fr.clara.net!heighliner.fr.clara.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news100.image.dk!news010.worldonline.dk.POSTED!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch rec.arts.books.tolkien:98145 Flame of the West asked > >Isn't there some magical Website that will produced shortened URLs? > http://www.makeashorterlink.com/ ?