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Jim King
>
> I prefer not to use these shortened links for various reasons.
>
What are they? I'm curious, as shortened links seem quite useful.
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Ericsson Microelectronics
Swindon, U.K.
Pete Biggs
"Jim King" <jim....@mic.ericsson.se> wrote in message
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> > I prefer not to use these shortened links for various reasons.
> What are they? I'm curious, as shortened links seem quite useful.
I suppose one reason might be that they could stop working at some point in
the future - if the forwarding service goes out of business or malfunctions.
This would then make the links useless for future surfers/Google Groupies.
But I like them (big up to the Makeashorterlink.com massive:-) and I don't
see why you shouldn't use them for trivial things at least, especially in
newsgroups. Maybe posting both short and long links is better.
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Colin Blackburn
says...
That'd be better. And to be fair to Jim his addition of a shorter link
was fine since he's a known poster and it followed my full url. What I
don't like, and so don't do, is post short links and nothing else. They
are too open to abuse in redirecting to pages with either dodgy active
content or just plain dodgy content. This is especially the case in net
news where posts and posters aren't always what they appear to be. I
prefer to see at least the underlying ip address to decide if I want to
go there.
Colin
Huw Pritchard
issue forth:
>> > I prefer not to use these shortened links for various reasons.
>
>> What are they? I'm curious, as shortened links seem quite useful.
<snip>
> But I like them (big up to the Makeashorterlink.com massive:-) and I
> don't see why you shouldn't use them for trivial things at least,
> especially in newsgroups. Maybe posting both short and long links is
> better.
Personally I prefer that approach. My newsreader just won't allow me to
copy and paste links. However, as Colin pointed out, some people don't
like them. It only takes a couple of seconds to do it, so I usually try
and put both in my posts to keep everybody happy.
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Ambrose Nankivell
> Colin Blackburn wrote:
> >
> > I prefer not to use these shortened links for various reasons.
> >
>
> What are they? I'm curious, as shortened links seem quite useful.
They give the makeashorterlink people a pretty good overview of your
web browsing habits, if you get passed a lot of them.
More importantly, they can be used to disguise obscene links, such as
http://oralse.cx (not actually obscene, except by name, but similar to
a well known obscene link)
Ambrose
LNR
>
>More importantly, they can be used to disguise obscene links, such as
>http://oralse.cx (not actually obscene, except by name, but similar to
>a well known obscene link)
But if you go to a makeashorterlink (whose great idea was it to give
the service such a long name?) URL you get plenty of time to look at the
URL it's a link to before being redirected. You can decide at that
point whether you want to actually view it or not.
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Ambrose Nankivell
> Ambrose Nankivell wrote:
> >
> >More importantly, they can be used to disguise obscene links, such as
> >http://oralse.cx (not actually obscene, except by name, but similar to
> >a well known obscene link)
>
> But if you go to a makeashorterlink (whose great idea was it to give
> the service such a long name?) URL you get plenty of time to look at the
> URL it's a link to before being redirected. You can decide at that
> point whether you want to actually view it or not.
>
I know. It's possible you may click on a link in your news client and
not switch in time to get the warning from makeashorterlink.com (or
indeed from qwer.org, if you prefer a shorter server)
A
Colin Blackburn
Do you think there's a market for,
www.makeanevenshorterlinkthanmakeashorterlink.com ?
Colin
Dave Kahn
>
> But if you go to a makeashorterlink (whose great idea was it to give
> the service such a long name?) URL
It's amusing that it's a long name, but the point is that it is still
short enough for it's purpose. The clever thing about it is that, like
Hotmail in the early days, it's self-publicising. You don't have to be
told about it, you just see the link, follow it, and start using it
yourself.
Dave...
Dave Kahn
> That'd be better. And to be fair to Jim his addition of a shorter link
> was fine since he's a known poster and it followed my full url. What I
> don't like, and so don't do, is post short links and nothing else. They
> are too open to abuse in redirecting to pages with either dodgy active
> content or just plain dodgy content. This is especially the case in net
> news where posts and posters aren't always what they appear to be. I
> prefer to see at least the underlying ip address to decide if I want to
> go there.
Those are good points. In future if I post a shorter link I will do so
alongside the full one.
Dave...