Ivan Shmakov wrote to Roy Witt:   
      
    IS>> If only to introduce yet another single point of failure?  (Or,   
    IS>> alternatively: censorship, surveillance, obscurity, etc.)   
      
    RW>> None of the above, merely a courtesy to those who cannot copy a two   
    RW>> line URL that didn't work in the first place, without doing some   
    RW>> editing.   
      
    IS>     My OP contained two URIs -- a 68 characters long http: one, and   
    IS>     a 63 characters long news: one.  Neither should've been split,   
    IS>     even after an "overhead" of 9 characters (reference labels and   
    IS>     quote attribution) was added (thus resulting in 77 characters on   
    IS>     a line at most.)   
      
   As you can see above, my reader 'wrapped' the first line into the 2nd   
   one...my display is set at 78 characters wide.   
      
    IS>     Or is there a chance for a line to be split, or mangled, by the   
    IS>     software even if less than 80 (79) characters long these days?   
      
   Yeup...   
      
   In any case, shortened URLs, as in TINYurl.com, work without having to   
   produce a bunch of messages to explain the ins and outs of your too long   
   URLs or my software wrapping long lines...   
      
   Copy this one and see if it works the first time.   
      
   http://www.thefreedictionary.com/_/MatchUp.aspx?res=3%2C1%2C0%2C2%2C4&tfd_   
   a0=admonitory&tfd_b0=fickle&tfd_a1=mendicant&tfd_b1=beggar&tfd_a2=mercuria   
   l&tfd_b2=mundane&tfd_a3=quotidian&tfd_b3=monitory&tfd_a4=lascivious&tfd_b4   
   =libidinous   
      
      
            R\%/itt   
      
      
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