From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2005-03-11T22:33:41+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Tiny URLs

vruz <horacio.lopez@gmail.com> writes:

>> 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.

This is also true for no-paste services like rafb.net/paste.

Please *don't* link to them in your blogs (IRC is fine, of
course... that's what they're made for), as those entries will vanish
over time.

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Christian Neukirchen  <chneukirchen@gmail.com>  http://chneukirchen.org