As they say in the Guinness commercials, Brilliant! As that URL points to their site, they are redirecting to the URL you entered. I wonder how long they maintain the linkage between the two.
Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Behalf Of Nick Kocharhook >Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 18:24 >To: U.S. Metric Association >Subject: [USMA:28447] Re: Metric quotation > > >On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 12:15:36AM -0600, Predrag Lezaic proclaimed: >> >> Make sure that you copy the whole link. It was cut in two in his email. > >Just wanted to point out site that addresses just this sort of problem: > >http://tinyurl.com/ > >The site states: > > Are you sick of posting URLs in emails only to have it break when > sent causing the recipient to have to cut and paste it back together? > Then you've come to the right place. By entering in a URL in the text > field below, we will create a tiny URL that will not break in email > postings and never expires. > >You can even put a link in your toolbar which generates a tinyurl from >the address of the current page. > >And no, I don't have any affiliation with the site. :-) Just thought it >would make life a little easier for the folks on this list. > >Enjoy! > >-- >Nick Kocharhook -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Rot-13 >
