From: Tom Copeland <tom@...>
Date: 2005-03-10T23:14:07+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Tiny URLs

On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 21:57 +0900, Thomas Kirchner wrote:
> * 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 
> > URL-shortener sites?  While I can understand the value, I don't 
> > particularly care to have to click through one site to get to another, 
> > 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.

Yup, exactly, I usually would paste in the link, but those ViewCVS URLs
are a mile long...

Yours,

Tom