Yes, if you're running a web site, there's not much reason to use somebody else's URL redirection service.
However, from personal experience I would recommend you not create a public URL redirecting service as you'll end up spending far too much of your life fighting the spammers and phishers who try to abuse it :-\ -- Eric Hammond [email protected] Alan Pope wrote: > 2009/6/30 Nick Barcet <[email protected]>: >> * Url in tips should preferably not be pointing to a wiki page, which >> holds to high a risk to be defaced. >> > > Would it not also make sense _not_ to link to tinyurl type services? > These are under even less control than the Ubuntu Wiki. > > Perhaps it's time that we had a tinyurl type system at (for example) > "go.ubuntu.com" to cater for this kind of thing. An Ubuntu run site > such as this could havea redirect to (for example) kvm documentation > at go.ubuntu.com/kvm . Using such a such would mean that in the event > the target documentation changes or becomes unvailable, the > maintainers of "go.ubuntu.com" could just change the /kvm redirect to > something else, and not have to update the server-tips package at all. > > Cheers, > Al. > -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
