Letters to the Editor
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The solution to the long URL problem ...
... lies in bypassing it. The problem is caused by Salon refusing to allow the <a> tag to create links. The way to go around this is not to use tinyurl (for all the reasons given previously), but to simply turn a valid URL in the text to a clickable link.
The way to do this is:
Get Firefox and an add on that makes any URL in text into a clickable link. I use Linkification (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/190), but there are others available also. Copy and paste no more. And don't let tinyurl take you somewhere you don't want to go.
For those who don't use Firefox and don't want to give up their present browser, you can go to the tinyurl site and let them install a cookie that will let you preview tinyurls so that you at least know where you are going when you copy and paste the tinyurl into your browsers address line.