On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 11:53:46 AM -0700, John Meyer wrote:

> While I would say that using a shorturl on an e-mail site is a bit
> apropos, I would disagree with the short-urls automatically equal
> spam.

They are not always spam, far from it, but create several problems it
would be bad to ignore:

http://joshua.schachter.org/2009/04/on-url-shorteners.html
http://blog.grumet.net/2009/04/03/url-shorteners-are-bad-for-the-web
http://www.scripting.com/stories/2009/08/19/howtofixurlshorteners.html

so the less they're used, the better. 

            Marco

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If we all used computers to watch TV...
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