On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 08:35:00AM -0800, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > > On Feb 1, 2006, at 7:36 AM, William Robb wrote: > > >>Thats strange Bill. You have frequent problems with tinyurl? > >>I've never run into any. > >I can rarely get tinyurl to work for me. > > It's possibly being blocked by your service provider.
All very interesting, but it rather obscures the main point. Just providing a tinyurl, with no other choice, is a bad idea. For some people the tinyurl might not work. Other people won't click on a tinyurl (and even some who might click on a tinyurl if they know where it is supposed to go, and who trust the person telling them, won't blindly click on a link that comes with no explanation). Then there are the philosophical objections that this introduces an unnecessary single point of failure; if tinyurl is unavailable then you can't get to any of the real destinations.
