On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Guruprasad <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > how are you sure that full URL can lead to correct place? > > 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. > what if both URL leads to wrong place? > > 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. > > It happens for full URL also... domain will be owned by someone else... - balachandar muruganantham எனது தமிழ் பக்கங்கள் - http://www.balachandar.net/pakkangal 950 INR/Pa;1 GB; 10 GB bw/mo; unlimited domains; LAMP support, Ruby on Rails, MySQL; cPanel - http://www.vazhangi.com .in domains @ 99 INR - http://domains.vazhangi.com _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
