On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Roger Hui <rhui...@shaw.ca> wrote: > This is the approach taken by many of the well-known > websites, such as Google, for whose many pages the > URL does not have "meaningful names". In fact, the > TinyURL facility deliberately chooses meaningless names, > and that meaninglessness is an advantage.
In my experience, meaningless names are the result of automated page generation or automated url generation. I suppose it could be argued that wiki page name constraints are morally equivalent to automatically generated names? That said, tinyurl now allows you to pick meaningful names for your link (if someone else has not already picked that name). Thanks, -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
