On 30 January 2015 at 22:10, William Muriithi <[email protected]> wrote: > > | From: Thomas Milne <[email protected]> > > | http://gu.com/p/45ba6 > > I recommend NOT shortening URLs in a mailing list. Some of us like > to know where we're going before we follow a link. > > +1 > > It's such an dangerous thing to do if you think at it from security > perspective. I usually just don't bother clicking on it
When clicked on, the URL expands to http://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2015/jan/30/computing-universe-science-weekly-podcast . Which is probably the URL you were looking at in your browser. Rather than copying the URL they provide (I assume the provided the gu.com URL with a sign saying "copy this!"), use what's in the location bar of your browser, as I'm inclined to agree with William and Hugh: I like to know where I'm going. I default to all JavaScript and cross-site scripting turned off - and I _still_ want to know my target address. :-) -- Giles http://www.gilesorr.com/ [email protected] --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
