Newsletter excerpts

[GodGell]

Hi there. I am subscribed to the Finalgear newsletter and have noticed that in almost every case the post text is shortened to an excerpt because it is too long. I have to go to the link in almost every case, often only getting the end of the word that was cut.
There is no point in shortening the message in the email - there's no size limit.

Here's an example - I received this newsletter on September 29th:

A new news post has been posted at FinalGear.com titled "James May On Richard
Hammond". Here is the post, or just the excerpt if it's a long post:

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But within 24 hours, he had improved. Within 48, he was out of danger. Five
minutes ago, as I sat at my desk, bugger me if he didn't ring me up and talk to
me in a perfectly lucid, normal way. He was a bit confused, certainly, but it
was Richard Hammond. Excellent.



More at the [...]
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To view the full post (if it was truncated) along with all formatting and links
intact, please visit it at this URL:

http://www.finalgear.com/news/2006/0...chard-hammond/

Clicking on the URL reveals that the only thing I missed was "Telegraph."

So in short: just turn the truncating off for the newsletter, please.

[Viper007Bond]

Originally Posted by GodGell

So in short: just turn the truncating off for the newsletter, please.

I never turned it on.

I'll go rip apart the plugin though and recode it to send the full content.

[Kaboon]

Originally Posted by GodGell

I have to go to the link in almost every case, often only getting the end of the word that was cut.

Viper does that to get some more hits on the main website.