On Saturday 05 March 2005 08:29 pm, Tracy R Reed wrote: > 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.
Often long urls are badly wrapped and don't even cut and paste properly without quite a bit of care. I like and use tinyurls often. > 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. So what's with Saigon? boblq -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
