Re: URL shortening (was Re: Need /etc/apt/sources.list)

2011-05-08 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 01:33, Arno Schuring aelschur...@hotmail.com wrote: However, this mailing list is archived. That means that links given on this mailing list are not simply fire-and-forget, they should be able to be resolved years from now. And while we cannot guarantee that any link

Re: URL shortening (was Re: Need /etc/apt/sources.list)

2011-05-08 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 09:28:54AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: There were actually a few cases of these link-shortening services going under. Tr.im went under and was bought, Canonical and Google both bought and saved one (I don't remember the names) and for a while bit.ly was under threat for

Re: URL shortening (was Re: Need /etc/apt/sources.list)

2011-05-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 07 mai 11, 00:33:59, Arno Schuring wrote: In other words, please do not use (unnecessary) URL mangling. It needlessly makes your message useless for posterity. +1 Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers:

URL shortening (was Re: Need /etc/apt/sources.list)

2011-05-06 Thread Arno Schuring
Dotan Cohen (dotanco...@gmail.com on 2011-05-06 23:07 +0300): No, this is not a matter of preference. There is no reason to pipe the links through some third party service [..] What advantage exists at all to use tinyURL? While I share your sentiment in general (I would never click on a