From: Aredridel <aredridel@...>
Date: 2005-03-11T03:59:57+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Tiny URLs

> > In the interest of web durability, I prefer not to use them.
> 
> That's a legitimate concern, and long-term there is the good chance that
> these proxied URLs will stop working.  However, for link-of-the-moment
> sort of needs, the potential transience is not an issue.
> 

Since IRC chats are often archived, and mailing list posts too, I
haven't found many cases where durability isn't a good thing.