Am Do 5. Juni 2008 schrieb AVee: > On Wednesday 04 June 2008 22:55, Andy Powell wrote: > > > > tinyurl is useful instead of typing in twattishly long urls which many > > sites insist on using. Generally you don;t want to click on a link provided > > by someone you don't know/trust. Not only that but if I use this url as an > > example - look what your mail client / this mailing list does to it (break > > it on wrap) > > If looked, the long url is perfectly fine, on one line and clickable. So the > mailing list doesn't break anything, neither does does my mail client. > > Having said that, tinyurl might actually make live easier for some people > (e.g. those who should get a decent mail client), I don't 'hate' them. But > please at least also include the original url. These mails are archived and > both the email and the linked page may outlive the tinyurl service. You might > end up loosing usefull information there.
+1. Never consider to click a tiny-url /j btw: my URLs I see aren't mangled in any way btw2: html-only postings are skipped by default @admin: could we have a filter for this?
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