If you only provide the tinyurl link, nobody can see what the name of the real site is, so there is some potential for inadvertently clicking through to a nasty site of some sort. In fact, we experienced this to a small extent when someone who shall remain nameless (Frank) used what he thought was tinyurl, but was not and which forced you to look at adverts for soft porn before you got to look at his soft pictures.
Modern eTiquette dictates that you should also provide the full name so people can see where they're going. It's also fractionally more efficient to click the real name, although I don't suppose anyone cares about that. I assume the tinyurls do have an expiry date. It would make sense since the site uses a hashing algorithm to generate the short name from the long one, and it is not possible to guarantee a unique short name for each long name. -- Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of ann sanfedele > Sent: 30 September 2007 22:29 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: PESO: Going Green > > Took this with my PENTON/CANTAX camera this afternoon. > > http://tinyurl.com/2d2rlw > > http://annsan.smugmug.com/gallery/2564371/1/202298310/Medium > > > BTW - > > Is there a reason why people use both tinyurl and the real link? > Do the Tinyurls have an expiration date? or do some browsers or > servers refuse to follow them? > > ann > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly > above and follow the directions. > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
