From: James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...>
Date: 2005-03-11T04:07:11+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Tiny URLs

Michael Campbell wrote:
>>Interesting.  On what basis do people trust them?
> 
> 
> They've never been down that I've ever seen.  The service has been
> around for a long time.  It's free.  It works.  It's robust.
> 
> 
> 
>> I doubt this url
>>
>>xxxx
>>
>>just came about by chance, and suggests a fairly juvenile (i.e.
>>unreliable) group of people are running tinyurl.com.
> 
> 
> Other than the obvious ad hominem aspect, what data do you have that
> supports your juvenile == unreliable claim?  

Um, pretty much every person I've met who has exhibited routine juvenile 
behavior has proved to be unreliable over reasonable amounts of time.

Maybe I've just had bad luck associating with the wrong group of 
childish people.

> Are you concerned now
> about the reliability of it, which hasn't yet (to me, anyway) proven
> to be bad, or something else?

I'm concerned (somewhat; I'm not really losing sleep over any of this) 
over whose business model I'm supporting, and what happens to the data 
that is likely begin collected.

> 
> I'll agree that the url mentioned is in bad taste, but I would suspect
> it's an "in-joke" that got out.

Probably.    But there it is.

James