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Posted by Blinky the Shark on 12/06/07 23:01
Harlan Messinger wrote:
> Bergamot wrote:
>> Harlan Messinger wrote:
>>> James wrote:
>>> [top-posting fixed]
>>>> "Adrienne Boswell" <arbpen@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:Xns99FDDABF0E656arbpenyahoocom@69.28.186.121...
>>>>> http://tinyurl.com/26hf58
>>> >
>>> > wHat?
>>>
>>> When someone responds to your question with a link, you can
>>> assume that it is being given to you as the location of an
>>> answer.
>>
>> It should be noted, however, that using a tinyurl instead of
>> the real url is off-putting. I rarely follow them myself, and I
>> imagine I'm not the only one.
>>
> Why is it offputting? It's a convenience, rather than giving you
> a long link that might break at the right margin and therefore
> not function without multiple copy-and-paste operations.
Some people like to to things the hard way. :)
Actually, some people are afraid of shortened URLs because they
assumt they're going to take them to pron or something.
One way around that with TinyURLs is to insert the string preview
into the tinyurl. In hta that case it would be
http://preview.tinyurl.com/26hf58 . That takes you to a page that
shows you the full original link so you can either continue -- or
stop if you're scared. This gives the convenience of the
shortened link but the unscarediness of being able to see the real
link and chose to go there or bail. That works for *anyone*
clicking the shortened link. For *personal* previweing, tinyurl
will set a cookie with your permission that enables that preview
step any time *you* click *any* tinyurl link.
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