On Fri, 06 May 2011 23:07:15 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I just tried tinyurl with wget and got the same IP address (and 200 > response) as you. I didn't check the links, though.
Then? Are you still getting trouble to reach the tinyurl web site? If yes, there could be a filter/proxy in between of you and the website, that is, your ISP. >> That's a different issue. There is nothing that needs to be teached >> here because we are talking about "preferences". You don't like tinyurl >> and that's okay, no one can blame you for that, but in the same way you >> can't also blame others for use it... even less when that person was >> willing to help you. >> >> > No, this is not a matter of preference. Sure it is. Nobody can force a user to use one or other method to post into this list. You can follow the link or not, that's up to you, but blaming someone -that is trying to help you- for using tinyurl (or any other of those URL shortening services) is like an overreaction. > There is no reason to pipe the links through some third party service > that is unreliable and may, either through malice stupidity or hacking, > compromise either the user's ability to connect to the site or perform > undesirable actions (tracking, advertising, drive-by malware). Could > TinyURL never be hacked? Sold? Forget to pay their hosting bill? > Hardware failure? Network failure? Oh, come on! That argument is very flawed. Should we stop of using Gmail e-mail service because of the same? >:-) Tinyurl, bit.ly and such have its use (mostly for twitter and sending SMS messages that enforce you a policy of limited characters) but using them in a mailing list is something is only up to the poster, not me, nor you... there is no one point in Debian mailing list netiquette stating the opposite. > What advantage exists at all to use tinyURL? It does not have to exist any. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.05.07.09.41...@gmail.com
