For those of you who hate making things ugly or hard to read...
www.tinyurl.com, invaluable url redictor that turns urls like this:
http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&sta ... google.com
into urls like this:
http://tinyurl.com/828b
I usually put a reference in front so the clickee knows what they're going to. (ex: [google.com] http://tinyurl.com/828b)