On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Narendra Sisodiya < [email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 8:34 AM, FOSSmaniac <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 05/27/2011 01:07 AM, Arjun S R wrote: >> > On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 00:47, Arjun S R <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> This is a really good page that I felt it was really worth reading | >> >> http://goo.gl/ZGkA6. >> > Sorry, the real link is -> http://goo.gl/tEiMJ. >> IMHO, we shouldn't use url shortened links on mailing list for the >> following reasons: >> >> 1. They create confusion as we already saw in this thread. >> >> 2. The person clicking on it doesn't know where it takes him. >> >> 3. It is not needed here, as we don't have any character limit( as in >> case of micro blogging). >> >> > 4. what if goo.gl shutdown ? > 5. Some of these are permanent, example, urls shortened with bit.ly can never be deleted ever!!! The bit.ly core developers team told its users rather authoritatively, that they do not think any scenario where shortened urls need to be deleted( indirectly they are calling their users Stupid!) Scary! :-S -- regards, Karan Pratap Singh -- Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: http://lug-iitd.org/Footer
