Hi Dawn,

Just read this story, very interesting and real bad luck for the owner and crew; they almost made it !

And, looking at the link you included in your post, which has 171 characters, reminded me that in cases where such a link, often to a document inside a larger file, is long, it can easily be shortened by using Tinyurl.com  free software that you download and has it's own link sitting in your Favourites Bar, until required.

In this case, by clicking on your link to bring up the article, then while the article is in view, click on the tinyurl,com link, it automatically produces a much shortened link - in this case -  http://tinyurl.com/7lcx8b3  which only has 26 characters and can be copied into an email message or web forum post, and will open the same document, in the same way.

In one sense, it doesn't make a shed-load of difference - you get the same result either way,  except, if the recipient has to manually copy the link it can be tedious and open to a typo, or useless if you wanted to include the link in Twitter (though I know most sensible, mature, JRA members dont send Tweets !) where you are limited to 140 characters, including gaps and punctuation, in each message.

Just a thought.

Kind regards.

Andrew