Thanks, Jeff, you answered my question thoroughly: is.gd URLs are trustworthy
so long as the site to which they point is legitimate. I assume the same is
true for tinyurls, but with so many being warned about them, it would seem
wiser not to use tinyurl (even though I prefer all lower case to
On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Ernie Kurtz kurtz...@umich.edu wrote:
Thanks, Jeff, you answered my question thoroughly: is.gd URLs are
trustworthy so long as the site to which they point is legitimate. I assume
the same is true for tinyurls, but with so many being warned about them, it
The whole point about tinyurls being untrustworthy is that they hide the
real url and you never know what you are actually clicking on. Many
unscrupulous people take advantage of that to send malicious links to
all sorts of places and so now people are hesitant to click on such a
link unless
