2009/6/24 John Gibbard <[email protected]>

> Only the fact that I simply copied the URL from an earlier email, no deceit
> intended.
>

Mark,

Good point, I hadn't considered that.

John,

No deceit taken - in fact I was thinking last night that it's perfect for
anything like this where the URL might spoil an amusing surprise!
Francis.

>
> (brief email, sent from phone)
> John Gibbard
> Senior Information Architect
> Dare
>
> On 23 Jun 2009, at 23:17, Francis Norton <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Out of curiosity, why do people use URL shrinkers when posting to mail
> lists? I like being able to inspect a URL before I click on it - compressing
> and thus disguising it seems to me to be a UX degradation in any context
> other than Twitter where it's pretty well unavoidable - am I missing
> something?
> Francis.
>
> 2009/6/23 < <[email protected]>[email protected]>
>
>> Saw this [1] and thought of all of the IxD people on here who deal with
>> the
>> haptic & tactile.
>>
>> Now, there's something analogous to nature in this particular concept but
>> I'll leave that to you to resolve.
>>
>> [1] <http://bit.ly/JIAyd>http://bit.ly/JIAyd
>>
>> John
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