On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 10:54, C Falconer wrote:
> Cool idea - but the user doesn't know what site the
> link is to and can't judge the usefulness of the link.
Agreed. I generally find that my messages have text in addition to the
URL :-P Normally I would say something like the following.
Here are three interesting sites
A broken link to a site with a scary picture
(goatse.cx):
http://makeashorterlink.com/?O2AD32682
Dick Smith Adaptor RJ47 Joiner (dse.co.nz):
http://makeashorterlink.com/?P57D22682
Using Apache with MS Windows (apache.org):
http://makeashorterlink.com/?V2BD22682
On a tangent, you never know which URL is broken. That is one of the
trade-offs made with the Web: distributed storage, but only
uni-directional links and broken links can exist. The alternative is to
have a central server which maintains links. This allows links to be
bi-directional and prevents broken links.
--
Michael JasonSmith http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~mpj17/
