From: Thomas Kirchner <lists@...>
Date: 2005-03-10T21:57:53+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Tiny URLs

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* On Mar 10 15:10, James Britt (ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org) wrote:
> Informal poll: Are there others as leery as I am of tinyurl and similar=
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> URL-shortener sites?  While I can understand the value, I don't=20
> particularly care to have to click through one site to get to another,=20
> and would much prefer to see the complete, direct URL.

In general I agree, I'd much rather see where a link is taking me.  The
exception is for some sites (Google Groups comes to mind) where the URLs
are literally 3+ lines to paste.  They're as useless for clarity as they
are for length.  (Plus tinyurl has been around a while and most people
trust them, though you can't necessarily trust its users.)
Tom

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