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
>

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