Cool idea - but the user doesn't know what site the link is to and can't judge the usefulness of the link.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?O2AD32682 http://makeashorterlink.com/?P57D22682 http://makeashorterlink.com/?V2BD22682 Which of these is useful, which is strange, and which is just plain wrong? On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 10:32, Michael JasonSmith wrote: > On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 10:16, David Kirk wrote: > > This link will probably wrap: > > http://www.dse.co.nz/cgi-in/dse.storefront/3ddd4c990aa842e0273fc0a87f990 > > 749/Product/View/XH4247 > I find > http://makeshorterlink.com/ > invaluable in these sorts of situations. Paste your long URL in and get > a shorter one out! For example > http://makeashorterlink.com/?Z2BC51682 > > I need this a lot as the "canterbury.ac.nz" domain-name is quite long, > so many URLs from the Canterbury site are too long (>75 characters). > > Thanks to Theuns for putting me onto makeshorterlink.com! > -- > Michael JasonSmith http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~mpj17/
