On 12/27/2009 1:15 PM, Lars Nooden wrote: > John Meyer wrote: >> While I would say that using a shorturl on an e-mail site is a bit >> apropos, I would disagree with the short-urls automatically equal >> spam. > > Close enough for government work. The Groklaw article is good and very > relevant to OOo use. Linking to it via a scam site may have not been a > demonstration of the best judgment or intentions.
You, good sir, are being completely absurd. > >> They have their time and place, notably in portable communications. > > T-bird, Apline and Opera all have no problem with URLs. Try it one of > them on Fedora or Ubuntu. <snip> Not everyone uses them for whatever reason. I don't use URL shortners in mailing lists just because I don't care if the end user doesn't use a decent MUA. That doesn't mean I'm going to lambast them and cook them on a spit. Kind prodding toward something more accepted is less likely to result in people being driven away.
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