Thanks, Jeff, you answered my question thoroughly: is.gd URLs are trustworthy
so long as the site to which they point is legitimate. I assume the same is
true for tinyurls, but with so many being warned about them, it would seem
wiser not to use tinyurl (even though I prefer all lower case to
On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Ernie Kurtz kurtz...@umich.edu wrote:
Thanks, Jeff, you answered my question thoroughly: is.gd URLs are
trustworthy so long as the site to which they point is legitimate. I assume
the same is true for tinyurls, but with so many being warned about them, it
The whole point about tinyurls being untrustworthy is that they hide the
real url and you never know what you are actually clicking on. Many
unscrupulous people take advantage of that to send malicious links to
all sorts of places and so now people are hesitant to click on such a
link unless
On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 3:14 PM, James Knott james.kn...@rogers.com wrote:
Ernie Kurtz wrote:
Anyway, I prefer to use tinyurl
A lot of people refuse to click on a tinyurl, as it often leads to malware.
There was a recent issue with Yahoo accounts being highjacked after users
clicked on a
At 11:12 23/02/2013 -0500, Ernie Kurtz wrote:
In endnotes, when I put in a tinyurl link using my usual font,
Garamond 12, the link shrinks to an 8 or 9 size. This does not
happen using is.gd -- so I assume the cause may be the word tiny?
I think it pretty unlikely that the text element tiny
