Posted by johnfowles on 06/01/06 02:05

dorayme wrote:
> Anyone know how long a tinyURL address is good for, assuming the
> file(s) (address of which is being shortened) are unchanged on
> the server? Reliable enough to recommend for a serious company to
> use for say a month or two?
>
> --
> dorayme

May I, having just found and joined this eminent group, start by just
saying that I firstly discovered http://www.shorturl.com and some of
my links are now getting on for three years old and have always worked.
However I stopped using them for a while when they started charging a
buck or something to set up a forwarding URL (but before that it was
free and all my originals I have never had to pay anything for-It is
now free again) somewhat miffed I googled and selected
http://www.notlong.com, which has a simpler and quicker set up ritual.
Some of my links I have now duplicated in case I forget which one I
used to create it.
IMHO both are vastly superior to tinyurl , where the link you get will
be something unmemoriable like http://tinyurl.com/okyf
whereas both shorturl.com and notlong.com allow you to enter something
appropriate. for example I often use the fantastic internet archives
held by the "wayback machine"
and instead of bookmarking it or googling I simply type
wayback,notlong into my browser's address bar then hit control and
enter together to automatically (in Internet Exploder at least) add the
prefix and .com to get
http://www.wayback.notlong.com
which if you try it SHOULD open the required page:-
http://www.archive.org/index.php
Would you believe it Just when I wanted to show off it looks like
notlong.com is down
but possibly will work for you on the morrow
John Fowles
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/
walks away with tail between his legs
I'll be back to read more here and later to introduce an innovative
range of HTML tutorials that I am working on for your criticisms etc.

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