On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 23:34, Heddle Weaver <weaver2wo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I appreciate your willingness to help, don't get me wrong. But just as >> I am here to learn, I thought that you might also be interested in >> learning the error of using url-shortening services. > > Oh, I remember you now. >
Have we a history? >> I apologise if I >> stepped on toes or tried to teach the old dog new tricks. > > I'm always keen to learn. > Where's the trick? > Don't use URL-shortening services. >> But in any >> case, even if I am fantasising about tracking or advertising, the >> links are most certainly broken. > > I click on both of them and they lead me straight to the target, every time. > Broken browser? > Possibly a broken browser, poisoned hosts file or DNS, a selective firewall at work, or 100 other problems on my end (though none of those would give HTTP error 500). But that only reinforces my position: HTTP is already a tenuous protocol, why add more fragile links to the chain? > In any case, this situation has already absorbed too much of my time. Agreed. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- 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/banlktik4j7l-+mkugwkwitpgp-xdxfo...@mail.gmail.com
