On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Joerg Reisenweber <<a href="mailto:joerg@openmoko.org">joerg@openmoko.org</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Am Do 5. Juni 2008 schrieb AVee:<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">> On Wednesday 04 June 2008 22:55, Andy Powell wrote:<br>
> ><br>
> > tinyurl is useful instead of typing in twattishly long urls which many<br>
> > sites insist on using. Generally you don;t want to click on a link<br>
provided<br>
> > by someone you don't know/trust. Not only that but if I use this url as an<br>
> > example - look what your mail client / this mailing list does to it (break<br>
> > it on wrap)<br>
><br>
> If looked, the long url is perfectly fine, on one line and clickable. So the<br>
> mailing list doesn't break anything, neither does does my mail client.<br>
><br>
> Having said that, tinyurl might actually make live easier for some people<br>
> (e.g. those who should get a decent mail client), I don't 'hate' them. But<br>
> please at least also include the original url. These mails are archived and<br>
> both the email and the linked page may outlive the tinyurl service. You<br>
might<br>
> end up loosing usefull information there.<br>
<br>
</div>+1. Never consider to click a tiny-url<br>
/j<br>
<br>
btw: my URLs I see aren't mangled in any way<br>
btw2: html-only postings are skipped by default<br>
<br>
@admin: could we have a filter for this?<br>
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<br></blockquote></div><br>+1.. If I don't know what I'm clicking... I don't click. I don't think I've ever even considered clicking a TinyURL.<br>