Same thing as any other link. Know who's sending it and look for context. If it just says check this out ... Don't click. If a tech story is quoted and it says link to original story you are good. You could try google ing it and see what pops up. Supposedly bit.ly is backing them up on archive.com
-- Patrick M. BLA/LMT -- Rigger Communications & Media Consult -- Massage Therapist PnM Resources -- Follow me #: 800-901-1089 --- On Mon, 5/2/11, Brad Bendily <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Brad Bendily <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] (no subject) > To: [email protected] > Date: Monday, May 2, 2011, 12:20 PM > What stops people from making short > urls to point to some malicious website? > This thought alone makes me not want to click on any short > url. > > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
