Hi, On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 10:45 +0530, Abishek Goda wrote: >> > What are its disadvantages? >> >> You do not know what it leads you to, for one thing. > > in fact if you want to show off that you know how to make a url > shortened link, the best practice is to put the full link first and then > add the shortened link below.
Also the shortened URLs are susceptible to link rot. Imagine after a couple of years some one searches for something in the mailing list archive and finds a short URL which is broken because the service that provided the shortening service has shortened down, though the actual target URL might still exist. Thanks & Regards, Guruprasad _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
