From: "Jon A. Lambert" <jlsysinc@...>
Date: 2005-03-13T19:49:12+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Tiny URLs

Francis Hwang wrote:
>
> Well, I can't say I've ever actually seen these used in web pages
> anyway. It's almost exclusively for contexts where a long URL make
> break, which is mostly email. (Maybe chat, but all the chat clients
> I've seen handle long URLs quite well.)
>

I've used them in web forums where badly written naughty word filters 
prevent the posting of a link.
For example, on one forum I was preventing from posting the link to 
www.objectwatch.com.
It took me a while to discover the naughty word. ;-)

J. Lambert