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Tue 20 Nov 2001 00:47
RAC Rally - Andrew
This my sound quite sad being a bit of a rally enthusiast. Scoured my copy of Motoring News and its special rally suplement but cannot find which date/day the RAC Rally of Great Britain (South Wales!) starts. Can anyone help?

Andrew.
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Tue 20 Nov 2001 01:12
Re: RAC Rally - Lee H
Andrew,

It starts this Thursday (22nd) and goes on until Sunday the 25th.

The BBC have full coverage at:

news.bbc.co.uk/sport/hi/english/static/in_depth/mo...m

Lee.
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Tue 20 Nov 2001 01:28
Re: RAC Rally - ladas are cool
that BBC link must be one of the longest i have ever seen, why on earth do the BBC always go for very long web addresses.
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Tue 20 Nov 2001 10:13
Re: RAC Rally - Andrew Barnes

What are you on about? Go and polish your rust.

ladas are cool wrote:
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> that BBC link must be one of the longest i have ever seen,
> why on earth do the BBC always go for very long web addresses.
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Tue 20 Nov 2001 23:29
Re: RAC Rally - ladas are cool
i am talking about the link that 'lee H' gave for the bbc.
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Tue 20 Nov 2001 07:49
Re: RAC Rally - Tomo
Agreed, I'd never get it right; and the 'phone bill is bad enough.
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Tue 20 Nov 2001 12:43
Re: RAC Rally - Matt Kelly
If you got to www.makeashorterlink.com you can put a really long URL in and it makes it into a shorter one which you can then pass on. You put the shorter link in the address bar of your browser and the person is sent to the makeashorterlink.com web site and redirected.

For example that long BBC URL (the reason they have long ones is because of the way they store the individual stories in a database & use a content management system I expect) becomes :

makeashorterlink.com/?N51E21C2
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Tue 20 Nov 2001 11:11
Re: RAC Rally - Honest John
Just copy the link and paste it into your web browser. Sorry to everyone who already knows this, but we all work at different levels and Tomo might not have known he didn't need to re-key the whole thing in.

HJ
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Tue 20 Nov 2001 22:42
makeashorterlink.com - David Lacey
Thanks Matt!

That is quite useful to have! Anything that makes life a bit more simple is great!

Cheers

David :-)
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