On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 01:16:49PM -0800, Todd Walton spake thusly: > shorter, right? Excellent motive, I say. The TinyURL service is > handy and, just as importantly, apparently reliable. But aren't there > any informal netiquette rules governing its use?
I find tinyurl rather useless myself. I really doubt anyone but the most hard core users who really like making life difficult for themselves are using a terminal that is incapable of cut and paste of one form or another. Nobody really types in url's anymore unless they are serious masochists. And if they are masochists why not give them what they want? Just give us the full url so we can see where we are going and save yourself a step in the process. Pissing off your friends and cow-orkers by obscuring goatse.cx (or a mirror thereof nowadays) with a tinyurl can be great fun though. Posting from a gamer cyber-cafe in Saigon with teenagers screaming in vietnamese right in my ear as they blow each other up in various first person shooters and cute anime looking games...I can't wait until DSL is installed in my apartment this week. -- Tracy Reed http://ultraviolet.org This message is cryptographically signed for your protection. Info: http://copilotconsulting.com/sig
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