Simple lesson for truncating ebay LINK
 

Posted By: <b>Ted Zanidakis</b><p>Is there anything more aggravating than when someone "cuts & pastes" the entire ebay LINK of a given lot they are interested in posting.<br />And, therefore stretching out all the subsequent posts in that Thread to a tedious length.<br /><br />For those who need to know how to abbreviate it.....you simply look for the end of the lot number and do a highlight sweep from that end<br /> digit leftward to the "http" lettering.<br /><br />The resulting abbreviated LINK is all anyone needs to click on to....to retrieve the ebay lot of interest.<br /><br />Here is an example.......<br /><br /><a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/1909-T206-GEORGE-BELL-BROOKLYN-SOVEREIGN_W0QQitemZ140167964151" target="_new" rel="nofollow">http://cgi.ebay.com/1909-T206-GEORGE-BELL-BROOKLYN-SOVEREIGN_W0QQitemZ140167964151</a><br /><br />&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;& lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt ;&lt; DO A BLUE HIGHLIGHT AND SWEEP LEFTWARD FROM HERE....^<br /><br /><br />TED Z <br />

Simple lesson for truncating ebay LINK
 

Posted By: <b>Matt</b><p>"Is there anything more aggravating than..."<br /><br />You live a blessed life if this is even in the top 10 of the most aggravating things you can think of.

Simple lesson for truncating ebay LINK
 

Posted By: <b>Tiny Earl</b><p>www.tinyurl.com<br /><br />Edited to say that ending sentences with prepositions is really aggravating.<br />(Easy, Matt. Just kidding, kind of).

Simple lesson for truncating ebay LINK
 

Posted By: <b>Tony Andrea</b><p>Ted -<br />I think you were referring to me in the "CLOSED AUCTION, NEED SOME SHARP EYES!!!" POST<br />Easy big fella. I fixed it. Carry on!!!!!!<br /><p>Tony

Simple lesson for truncating ebay LINK
 

Posted By: <b>Joann</b><p>I see this complaint now and then, but don't really know how many have this problem. On my screen any URL automatically word-wraps within the Net54 post, so my screen doesn't extend to the right when there is a long URL.<br /><br />Anyone know if there are settings for your Net54 pages or within your computer or display controls that cause the word-wrap instead of the screen extend? I suspect that the reason more people post long links is because they don't get the screen extend so it's not something at the front of the mind.<br /><br />Cool trick on the link-shorting Ted. I'll try to keep it in mind if I post ebay links.<br /><br />J

Simple lesson for truncating ebay LINK
 

Posted By: <b>Marty Ogelvie</b><p>good info, thanks Ted!<br><br>martyOgelvie<br />nyyankeecards.com

Simple lesson for truncating ebay LINK
 

Posted By: <b>Ted Zanidakis</b><p>No, I wasn't trying to single out anyone on this board. Stretching out posts due to excessively lengthy LINKS, has been a complaint<br /> I have heard before on here.<br />And, all I was suggesting is that it can be avoided by "cut and pasting" just the useful information from the these lengthy ebay URL's.<br />The lenghty string of characters that follow the EBAY LOT NUMBER on these URL's are meaningless for our purposes in retrieving a<br /> particular ebay lot.<br /><br />That's all I was trying to convey to Net54ers....any other interpretation of this post is really unnecessary.<br /><br />TED Z<br />

Simple lesson for truncating ebay LINK
 

Posted By: <b>Jim VB</b><p>Ted, <br /><br />Thank you. Learn something new every day. <br /><br /><br />Tiny Earl, <br /><br />I had an English teacher that used to say "A preposition is a bad word to end a sentence with!"