From: ES <ruby-ml@...>
Date: 2005-03-11T12:28:07+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Tiny URLs

Dick Davies wrote:
> * 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 often search ruby-talk (and other) archives for various information.
No idea how persistent TURLs are; the 'real' version is certainly better
in that respect.

> 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. 

E