On 10/30/07, Andrew Lentvorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > > > I'm not certain if that was sarcasm or not. I find the url-shortening > > services to be very useful. If you have a long url (some of the ebay and > > amazon urls can get very long) supplying a shortened url will prevent > > problems with line wrapping. > > However, the problem I have with services like tinyurl is that they > *expire*. > > So, I have to include the long link *anyhow*. > > -a
The long link can expire as well. It seems to me that if you want to eleminate all prooblems with links than you need to provide the content the link points to as well ... indefinitely. Maybe the solution is to provide the short link with a comment that it _will_ expire in some time, say one month, and if the user wants the underlying link or its content they must save them. The finger may point at the moon but the moon moves. BobLQ BobLQ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
