On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 01:33, Arno Schuring <[email protected]> wrote: > However, this mailing list is archived. That means that links given on > this mailing list are not simply fire-and-forget, they should be able > to be resolved years from now. And while we cannot guarantee that any > link remains valid, it is foolish to assume URL shorteners outlive the > target website. > > In other words, please do not use (unnecessary) URL mangling. It > needlessly makes your message useless for posterity. > >
There were actually a few cases of these link-shortening services going under. Tr.im went under and was bought, Canonical and Google both bought and saved one (I don't remember the names) and for a while bit.ly was under threat for violating Sharia law. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
