Spiros Denaxas wrote:
Hi,
I would have to partially agree with you on that. On the plus side,
using a service like TinyURL does make life easier: URL's are shorter
and prettier and helps people avoid nasty line break issues that some
clients face. On the other hand, you are right - not being able to see
the landing URL of a link is dangerous and potentially a security
issue. I do believe however that this is mainly due to the fact that
TinyURL is an external factor and not under direct control of the BBC
itself. Should they actually implement a similar _private_ service , I
wouldn't have any problems using it.
Is. tiny.bbc.co.uk/2m2kLAp <http://tiny.bbc.co.uk/2m2kLAp>
Spiros
It seems they have this partially built already for programmes, it's not
necessarily a short link but certainly a permalink with unique id (half
the battle ?):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007v5cv
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