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When sending long URLs in mailing list or forum

postings, please also include a tinyurl -ized version.

When sending long URLs in mailing list or forum
postings, please also include a tinyurl -ized version.
For example:
http://tinyurl.com/e8b34

long-urls

but what if tinyurl goes under? or gets bought out by some company

that drops the ball and breaks the tinyurl-ing? plain links are more

future-proof than tinyurl. Mail programs will get better at

recomposing long URLs. 'Til then, delete, delete, delete, select,

but what if tinyurl goes under? or gets bought out by some company
that drops the ball and breaks the tinyurl-ing? plain links are more
future-proof than tinyurl.  Mail programs will get better at
recomposing long URLs.  'Til then, delete, delete, delete, select,
copy, paste -- voila!  it is restored!  :)

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> but what if tinyurl goes under? or gets bought out by some company

> that drops the ball and breaks the tinyurl-ing? plain links are more

> future-proof than tinyurl. Mail programs will get better at

> recomposing long URLs. 'Til then, delete, delete, delete, select,

> copy, paste -- voila! it is restored! :)

In general any very long URL isn't one which lasts long anyway. Usually 

you would need them anyway only for temporary links. Links that should 

last long are more like www.mywonderfulsite.org/downlaods/filename which 

Tinyurl is god for posting links to ebay/amazon articles and alike.

Dan Winckler wrote:
> but what if tinyurl goes under? or gets bought out by some company
> that drops the ball and breaks the tinyurl-ing? plain links are more
> future-proof than tinyurl.  Mail programs will get better at
> recomposing long URLs.  'Til then, delete, delete, delete, select,
> copy, paste -- voila!  it is restored!  :)

In general any very long URL isn't one which lasts long anyway. Usually 
you would need them anyway only for temporary links. Links that should 
last long are more like www.mywonderfulsite.org/downlaods/filename which 
would not need a tiny url...

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database due to abusive traffic. I'm going to have to add some 

In the meantime everyone is going to have to sit tight. Sorry for the 

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"As of Feb 13, 2:17am, Dreamhost has disabled the url(x) MySQL 
database due to abusive traffic. I'm going to have to add some 
throttling functionality in here.
In the meantime everyone is going to have to sit tight. Sorry for the 
inconvenience."

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Defective Records
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http://www.defectiverecords.com
http://www.jackosx.com


Besides having being disabled since Feb 13, in what other ways is this 

Besides having being disabled since Feb 13, in what other ways is this 
site better than tinyurl?


Long URLs