From: Dick Davies <rasputnik@...>
Date: 2005-03-11T09:34:26+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Tiny URLs

* vruz <horacio.lopez@gmail.com> [0347 23:47]:
> > Since IRC chats are often archived, and mailing list posts too, I
> > haven't found many cases where durability isn't a good thing.
> > 
> 
> Exactly, besides,  many of these tiny urls are based on a temporary
> hash table that is recycled every now and then.
> 
> If you're exchanging valuable, long lasting information, tinyurls may
> not be good to keep a record for posterity.

But surely you just bookmark the url you get redirected to?

I generally post both the long version and a tinyurled one, then
anyone with religious objections can click on the long one and it still
looks ok in mutt. 

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