> On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 16:16, Todd Walton wrote: > > > The other beef I have with TinyURL use is the reliability of the > > TinyURL service. They've been around since at least February of 2002. > > That's three whole years. But what happens when, say, 20 years from > > now they're gone? What if somebody else buys the domain name and > > starts cashing in on all those dormant tinyurl hyperlinks out there? > > What about the freaking page I wanted to link to?!??
Well urls often have a short lifetime anyway. So far lifetime of a tinyurl is, what? three years or some such. The net is full of links that are broken in far less time. tinyurls have proved to be useful for a a variety of reasons but mostly for shortening long urls. This utility suggests that the service may well be around for a long time. > > Proposal: > > > > I think that when a TinyURL is employed, the real link should also be > > included. Plain and simple. If the real, long URL gets mucked up, so > > be it. But at least it's there, and a person can see where they're > > being taken before they follow the link, as well as the actual > > Internet address being referred to being available for posterity's > > sake. More trouble than it is worth. boblq "SLB" -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
