Hi, Anton Shepelev!   
   I read your message from  27.06.2016 19:38   
   about What is behind short URL?.   
      
    AK>> What is "preview URL"?   
      
    AS> One which does not automatically open the destina tion URL, but   
    AS> rather lets one view it and decide whether it is safe or not.   
      
   I wonder how a person can decide that a particular URL is safe or not safe?   
   Both the original URL and the short one lead to unknown. Nobody knows where do   
   the they lead. Therefore it is a matter of trust to a person who gives URLs.   
   If I trust you, for instance, I'll open your links or otherwise I'll ignore   
   them for the reason of safety.   
      
      
      
    AK>> BTW, what a program do you use when you write your messages?   
    AS> It's my turn to correct you: omit the 'a'.   
      
   Let's  ask Englishmen! ;) After all, when we say "What a lovely day today,   
   isn't?" we use the article 'a'. I suspect the article 'a' makes my question   
   more exact. But if we ask about an uncountable word we don't use 'a'. For   
   instance, "what rubbish!"   
      
    AS> Sylpheed is my newsreader and GNU Troff my formatter.   
      
   Fidonet has some text standards. Special programs or plugins (quoters) process   
   your text, reformat it and  make the lines properly quoted. If your text   
   doesn't follow the rule people will be forced to edit your text manually and   
   not everyone like it.   
      
   The main rules are the following:   
      
   1. You format only the paragraphs with quotation marks. (it it better to put   
   an additional space before the quoting marks).   
   2. "Your" text should be (if possible) in the flowed format (one long line, in   
   other words, no carriage returns).   
   3. "Your" text, if possible, should have no space margin on the left. The   
   quotation programs don't like it. There are exceptions of course -- you can   
   print verses or songs in the middle of the page.   
   4. Turn off a text syllabification feature - there is no fido quoters that   
   support it.   
   5. Some fido programs don't like the text that justified on the right. The   
   people will have a broken text in this case.   
      
    AS>> But pray tell what your client is, for it seems to reflow my text,   
      
   Reflowing it is a usual procedure. Try to make your text so that it can be   
   reflowed.   
      
    AS>> sometimes in a most inaccurate manner, e.g. it changed the three   
    AS>> lines of my short URL exposition into two but preserved the   
    AS>> formatting of the P.S.   
      
   I use Thinderbird 31.7 + my own quoting program.   
      
   Bye, Anton!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
   ENGLISH_TUTOR 2016   
      
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