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#3570 Daily Newsletter truncates urls

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2006-01-28
2006-01-28
shane
No

the daily news emailing can truncate urls because it's trying to box
them in. here's an example:

What's Wrong With The US Daily Newsletter

+----------------------------------------------------------
----------+
| Bush's 'Reasonable Debate' is Unreasonable |
| from the a-reasonable-debate-is-when-I-win dept. |
| posted by abelincoln on Thursday January 26, @21:00 (Government)
|
| http://politics.whatswrongwiththe.us/article.pl?
sid=06/01/26/2326|
+----------------------------------------------------------
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the actual link is

http://politics.whatswrongwiththe.us/article.pl?
sid=06/01/26/2326238

i think the problem is because of the length specified in

[% USE num = format("\n%5d. %s") %]
[% USE box = format("| %-67.67s|\n") %]

Depending on a site's {subdomain}.tld length, this could much more of
a problem (more being cutoff) then other sites.

The real dilemma is that there could be many sites who don't even
know this is happening, so their daily emails are containing bad links,
which doesn't help boost traffic.

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