On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 10:46 PM, balachandar muruganantham < [email protected]> wrote:
> > how are you sure that full URL can lead to correct place? > It depends. If the poster says it is a link to some article on Ubuntu (say lwn.net/Articles/6000/) but posts link to some other article (say lwn.net/Articles/5000 ), yes it leads to wrong place though it is full url. But my concern is not that. What if poster gave a link for malware site? while I'll click on lwn.net/Articles/5000 and get into wrong article, I'll never ever click on malware.net/blah/bla > > 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... > > Please read the para you quoted again. When the original domain has transfered hands nothing can be done, of course: both full and short urls will lead nowhere. The question is what will happen when url shortener goes out "though the actual target URL might still exist" and would have been perfectly accessible if not for the url obfuscator? -- *அகிலன்* (Akilan R) (http://www.coding-aviator.blogspot.com) *I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.* --Jean Rostand _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
