Re: long line warning & URLs

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Ami Fischman <usenet@fischman.org> writes:

> I like that message warns me when I'm about to post a message with lines
> that are too long.  However, I wish it would NOT ask me about lines that
> are only too long b/c there's a long (google groups, most likely) URL
> involved.  Does it seem like a good idea to people to change the
> "long-lines" syntax check to ignore URL lines?

Then you'd have to be able to recognize URLs reliably.  :-)

Theoretically, if you wrap the URLs in <URL: ...>, you can insert as
much white space as you want, but that only works in a not-too-big
number of news readers. 

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