From: Aredridel <aredridel@...>
Date: 2005-03-15T06:59:48+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Tiny URLs

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 10:19:23 +0900, Francis Hwang <sera@fhwang.net> wrote:
> 
> On Mar 10, 2005, at 10:29 AM, Lee Braiden wrote:
> 
> > I would rather people just use HTML links properly, so that you see
> > the label
> > instead of the underlying URL.  Doesn't work too well for plain text
> > email,
> > but no one said email looks as nice as a webpage anyway :)
> 
> 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.)
> 
> And HTML email has all sorts of complications to it, too.
> 

You mean used on web pages like 
http://rubyurl.com/DuYkv <evil grin>