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Ryan Cousineau

12-31-1969, 08:00 PM

http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2007/worldcup0708/beijing07/index.php?i
d=/photos/2007/worldcup0708/beijing07/beijing073/CavendishWiggins_gc_PhSp
t

I can hardly pick between that one and this one:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2007/worldcup0708/beijing07/index.php?i
d=/photos/2007/worldcup0708/beijing07/beijing073/WigginsCavendish_gc_PhSp
t

--
Ryan Cousineau rcousine@sfu.ca http://www.wiredcola.com/
"My scenarios may give the impression I could be an excellent crook.
Not true - I am a talented lawyer." - Sandy in rec.bicycles.racing

Ted van de Weteringe

01-03-1970, 09:54 PM

Ryan Cousineau wrote:
> http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2007/worldcup0708/beijing07/index.php?i
> d=/photos/2007/worldcup0708/beijing07/beijing073/CavendishWiggins_gc_PhSp
> t
>
> I can hardly pick between that one and this one:
>
> http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2007/worldcup0708/beijing07/index.php?i
> d=/photos/2007/worldcup0708/beijing07/beijing073/WigginsCavendish_gc_PhSp
> t

Can MT-Newswatcher be configured to not break up long URLs?
http://snurl.com/cavwig1
http://snurl.com/cavwig2

Andrew Price

01-03-1970, 09:54 PM

On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:36:42 +0100, Ted van de Weteringe
<myfullname@xs4all.nl.invalid> wrote:

>> http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2007/worldcup0708/beijing07/index.php?i
>> d=/photos/2007/worldcup0708/beijing07/beijing073/WigginsCavendish_gc_PhSp
>> t
>
>Can MT-Newswatcher be configured to not break up long URLs?

I don't know, but its default configuration certainly seems to be set
to make a mess of them - I've seen it on many other occasions. It's a
pain having to stick them all back together again in a text editor.

Michael Press

01-03-1970, 09:54 PM

In article
<lrisl39eeijlvjm3m4et60ncjfg6kk51va@4ax.com>,
Ted van de Weteringe <myfullname@xs4all.nl.invalid>
wrote:

> Ryan Cousineau wrote:
> > http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2007/worldcup0708/beijing07/index.php?i
> > d=/photos/2007/worldcup0708/beijing07/beijing073/CavendishWiggins_gc_PhSp
> > t
> >
> > I can hardly pick between that one and this one:
> >
> > http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2007/worldcup0708/beijing07/index.php?i
> > d=/photos/2007/worldcup0708/beijing07/beijing073/WigginsCavendish_gc_PhSp
> > t
>
> Can MT-Newswatcher be configured to not break up long URLs?
> http://snurl.com/cavwig1
> http://snurl.com/cavwig2

In any newsreader enclose the URL in angle brackets.
These are line wrapped by MT-Newswatcher.
<http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2007/worldcup0708/bei
jing07/index.php?id=/photos/2007/worldcup0708/beijing07/
beijing073/CavendishWiggins_gc_PhSpt>

<http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2007/worldcup0708/bei
jing07/index.php?id=/photos/2007/worldcup0708/beijing07/
beijing073/WigginsCavendish_gc_PhSpt>

--
Michael Press

Marian

01-03-1970, 09:54 PM

On Dec 11, 4:36 pm, Ted van de Weteringe
<myfulln...@xs4all.nl.invalid> wrote:
> Ryan Cousineau wrote:
> >http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2007/worldcup0708/beijing07/index.p...
> > d=/photos/2007/worldcup0708/beijing07/beijing073/CavendishWiggins_gc_PhSp
> > t
>
> > I can hardly pick between that one and this one:
>
> >http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2007/worldcup0708/beijing07/index.p...
> > d=/photos/2007/worldcup0708/beijing07/beijing073/WigginsCavendish_gc_PhSp
> > t
>
> Can MT-Newswatcher be configured to not break up long URLs?http://snurl.com/cavwig1http://snurl.com/cavwig2

Not that you have any idea how much you are rubbing it in by posting
cool pictures and not that it is any way your fault or anything like
that but do you have any idea how bloody PISSED OFF I am to find out
that one of the Good Luck Beijing events happened while I am freezing
my ass off in Beijing on an utterly pointless business trip and that
no one told me about it until AFTER IT HAPPENED????

The promise from the person who told me about it (on Monday night, at
dinner, in enthusiastic tones, with details) that he'll try to take me
by the velodrome before I leave Beijing and the fact that he's
arranging for the two of us to go to dinner with some mutual friends
from the Chinese Cycling Association so does not improve upon the fact
that there was track racing at a track in a city that I was in and NO
ONE TOLD ME.

And he knew I was going to be in Beijing. He couldn't have dinner
with me on Sunday night because he was busy with Good Luck Games stuff
and it never occured to him that I MIGHT WANT TO KNOW. Or even that I
might want to GO AND WATCH.

The Chinese Yachting Association is looking more and more attractive.
I'll be attached to a team. That will presumably make it much harder
to forget to tell me stuff.

-M

Ryan Cousineau

01-03-1970, 09:56 PM

In article <3entl3heffrrjen6hqdvja7svv1a39jcld@4ax.com>,
Andrew Price <ajprice@free.fr> wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:36:42 +0100, Ted van de Weteringe
> <myfullname@xs4all.nl.invalid> wrote:
>
> >> http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2007/worldcup0708/beijing07/index.php?i
> >> d=/photos/2007/worldcup0708/beijing07/beijing073/WigginsCavendish_gc_PhSp
> >> t
> >
> >Can MT-Newswatcher be configured to not break up long URLs?
>
> I don't know, but its default configuration certainly seems to be set
> to make a mess of them - I've seen it on many other occasions. It's a
> pain having to stick them all back together again in a text editor.

That appears to be the case. I did dig through the prefs, and there
doesn't seem to be a "don't screw up long lines" option. I'll revert to
my usual policy of parallel full URLs and tinyurls in my posts, where
the URL is longer than one line.

But come on, those are good pics, eh?

--
Ryan Cousineau rcousine@sfu.ca http://www.wiredcola.com/
"My scenarios may give the impression I could be an excellent crook.
Not true - I am a talented lawyer." - Sandy in rec.bicycles.racing

Michael Press

01-03-1970, 09:56 PM

Howard Kveck

01-03-1970, 09:58 PM

In article <rcousine-778BCB.17161611122007@[74.223.185.199.nw.nuvox.net]>,
Ryan Cousineau <rcousine@sfu.ca> wrote:

> In article <3entl3heffrrjen6hqdvja7svv1a39jcld@4ax.com>,
> Andrew Price <ajprice@free.fr> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:36:42 +0100, Ted van de Weteringe
> > <myfullname@xs4all.nl.invalid> wrote:
> >
> > >> http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2007/worldcup0708/beijing07/index.php?i
> > >> d=/photos/2007/worldcup0708/beijing07/beijing073/WigginsCavendish_gc_PhSp
> > >> t
> > >
> > >Can MT-Newswatcher be configured to not break up long URLs?
> >
> > I don't know, but its default configuration certainly seems to be set
> > to make a mess of them - I've seen it on many other occasions. It's a
> > pain having to stick them all back together again in a text editor.
>
> That appears to be the case. I did dig through the prefs, and there
> doesn't seem to be a "don't screw up long lines" option. I'll revert to
> my usual policy of parallel full URLs and tinyurls in my posts, where
> the URL is longer than one line.
>
> But come on, those are good pics, eh?

If I need to post a longer URL, I just reset the pref for how wide the wrap width
is. If it's really long, tinyurl...

--
tanx,
Howard

Safe when used as directed...

remove YOUR SHOES to reply, ok?

Ryan Cousineau

01-03-1970, 10:00 PM

In article <rubrum-35F5DA.20561911122007@newsclstr03.news.prodigy.net>,
Michael Press <rubrum@pacbell.net> wrote:

> In article
> <lrisl39eeijlvjm3m4et60ncjfg6kk51va@4ax.com>,
> Ted van de Weteringe <myfullname@xs4all.nl.invalid>
> wrote:
>
> > Ryan Cousineau wrote:
> > > http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2007/worldcup0708/beijing07/index.php?i
> > > d=/photos/2007/worldcup0708/beijing07/beijing073/CavendishWiggins_gc_PhSp
> > > t
> > >
> > > I can hardly pick between that one and this one:
> > >
> > > http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2007/worldcup0708/beijing07/index.php?i
> > > d=/photos/2007/worldcup0708/beijing07/beijing073/WigginsCavendish_gc_PhSp
> > > t
> >
> > Can MT-Newswatcher be configured to not break up long URLs?
> > http://snurl.com/cavwig1
> > http://snurl.com/cavwig2
>
> In any newsreader enclose the URL in angle brackets.
> These are line wrapped by MT-Newswatcher.
> <http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2007/worldcup0708/bei
jing07/index.php?id=/photos/2007/worldcup0708/beijing07/
beijing073/CavendishWiggins_gc_PhSpt>
>
> <http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2007/worldcup0708/bei
jing07/index.php?id=/photos/2007/worldcup0708/beijing07/
beijing073/WigginsCavendish_gc_PhSpt>

That was easy...I'll do that.

--
Ryan Cousineau rcousine@sfu.ca http://www.wiredcola.com/
"My scenarios may give the impression I could be an excellent crook.
Not true - I am a talented lawyer." - Sandy in rec.bicycles.racing

Ted van de Weteringe

01-03-1970, 10:00 PM

Michael Press wrote:
> In any newsreader enclose the URL in angle brackets.
> These are line wrapped by MT-Newswatcher.
> <http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2007/worldcup0708/bei
> jing07/index.php?id=/photos/2007/worldcup0708/beijing07/
> beijing073/CavendishWiggins_gc_PhSpt>

Doesn't help me, using Agent. I'll just have to ignore RCoozeenono's
posts from here on out.

Kyle Legate

01-03-1970, 10:00 PM

Michael Press wrote:
> In article
> <lrisl39eeijlvjm3m4et60ncjfg6kk51va@4ax.com>,
> Ted van de Weteringe <myfullname@xs4all.nl.invalid>
> wrote:
>
>> Ryan Cousineau wrote:
>>> http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2007/worldcup0708/beijing07/index.php?i
>>> d=/photos/2007/worldcup0708/beijing07/beijing073/CavendishWiggins_gc_PhSp
>>> t
>>>
>>> I can hardly pick between that one and this one:
>>>
>>> http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2007/worldcup0708/beijing07/index.php?i
>>> d=/photos/2007/worldcup0708/beijing07/beijing073/WigginsCavendish_gc_PhSp
>>> t
>> Can MT-Newswatcher be configured to not break up long URLs?
>> http://snurl.com/cavwig1
>> http://snurl.com/cavwig2
>
> In any newsreader enclose the URL in angle brackets.
> These are line wrapped by MT-Newswatcher.
> <http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2007/worldcup0708/bei
> jing07/index.php?id=/photos/2007/worldcup0708/beijing07/
> beijing073/CavendishWiggins_gc_PhSpt>
>
> <http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2007/worldcup0708/bei
> jing07/index.php?id=/photos/2007/worldcup0708/beijing07/
> beijing073/WigginsCavendish_gc_PhSpt>
>
Still, only the first line is clickable.

Donald Munro

01-03-1970, 10:01 PM

Ted van de Weteringe wrote:
> Doesn't help me, using Agent. I'll just have to ignore RCoozeenono's posts
> from here on out.

Plonking a drunk is better than drinking plonk.

Ted van de Weteringe

01-03-1970, 10:01 PM

Marian wrote:
> The Chinese Yachting Association is looking more and more attractive.

Being the contact person / translator for a yachting team sounds much
more attractive than the same for cycling, especially from a business
point of view. Just go cycling in your free time (which you won't
have).

RicodJour

01-03-1970, 10:01 PM

On Dec 12, 4:51 am, Marian <marian.rosenb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Not that you have any idea how much you are rubbing it in by posting
> cool pictures and not that it is any way your fault or anything like
> that but do you have any idea how bloody PISSED OFF I am to find out
> that one of the Good Luck Beijing events happened while I am freezing
> my ass off in Beijing on an utterly pointless business trip and that
> no one told me about it until AFTER IT HAPPENED????
>
> The promise from the person who told me about it (on Monday night, at
> dinner, in enthusiastic tones, with details) that he'll try to take me
> by the velodrome before I leave Beijing and the fact that he's
> arranging for the two of us to go to dinner with some mutual friends
> from the Chinese Cycling Association so does not improve upon the fact
> that there was track racing at a track in a city that I was in and NO
> ONE TOLD ME.
>
> And he knew I was going to be in Beijing. He couldn't have dinner
> with me on Sunday night because he was busy with Good Luck Games stuff
> and it never occured to him that I MIGHT WANT TO KNOW. Or even that I
> might want to GO AND WATCH.

That's right up there with the time way back in architecture school,
studying abroad in Rome, when a 'friend' asked to borrow my camera.
'Sure, no problem.', I says, little knowing that he wanted it to go
with another guy and my goddamn girlfriend on a private tour up inside
the walls and dome of the Pantheon. Gee, why would I want to go do
_that_?! Schmuck. Excuse me, schmucks and schmuckette. And I didn't
even get copies of the pictures. Luckily I'm not bitter thirty years
later. ;)

R

Marian

01-03-1970, 10:01 PM

On Dec 12, 6:00 pm, Ted van de Weteringe
<myfulln...@xs4all.nl.invalid> wrote:
> Marian wrote:
> > The Chinese Yachting Association is looking more and more attractive.
>
> Being the contact person / translator for a yachting team sounds much
> more attractive than the same for cycling, especially from a business
> point of view. Just go cycling in your free time (which you won't
> have).

Doesn't really matter which pro sports association I end up with, it's
all the Chinese government footing the bill.

-M

Carl Sundquist

01-03-1970, 10:11 PM

"Marian" <marian.rosenberg@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:66d8e795-7cfe-4958-86c6-ec9456529e53@e23g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
> On Dec 12, 6:00 pm, Ted van de Weteringe
> <myfulln...@xs4all.nl.invalid> wrote:
>> Marian wrote:
>> > The Chinese Yachting Association is looking more and more attractive.
>>
>> Being the contact person / translator for a yachting team sounds much
>> more attractive than the same for cycling, especially from a business
>> point of view. Just go cycling in your free time (which you won't
>> have).
>
> Doesn't really matter which pro sports association I end up with, it's
> all the Chinese government footing the bill.
>
> -M

Be sure to thank the Chinese Greg.

Michael Press

01-03-1970, 10:11 PM

In article
<66d8e795-7cfe-4958-86c6-ec9456529e53@e23g2000prf.googl
egroups.com>,
Marian <marian.rosenberg@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Dec 12, 6:00 pm, Ted van de Weteringe
> <myfulln...@xs4all.nl.invalid> wrote:
> > Marian wrote:
> > > The Chinese Yachting Association is looking more and more attractive.
> >
> > Being the contact person / translator for a yachting team sounds much
> > more attractive than the same for cycling, especially from a business
> > point of view. Just go cycling in your free time (which you won't
> > have).
>
> Doesn't really matter which pro sports association I end up with, it's
> all the Chinese government footing the bill.

Still unclear on the concept.
Bicycle racers get table scraps.
Yacht racers buy and sell countries.
OK?

--
Michael Press

Donald Munro

01-03-1970, 10:20 PM

Michael Press wrote:
> Still unclear on the concept.
> Bicycle racers get table scraps.
> Yacht racers buy and sell countries.

So presumably they won't have any ex senators checking out
their doping habits.

Michael Press

01-03-1970, 10:22 PM

In article
<4764ace0$0$10692$ec3e2dad@news.usenetmonster.com>,
Donald Munro <fat-dumbass@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Michael Press wrote:
> > Still unclear on the concept.
> > Bicycle racers get table scraps.
> > Yacht racers buy and sell countries.
>
> So presumably they won't have any ex senators checking out
> their doping habits.

Where do you think ex-senators get their dope?

--
Michael Press