Camaleón, Thanks!
I've written to yahoo--if I get a response I'll summarize it here. Randy Kramer On Sunday 12 February 2012 05:02:07 am Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:52:47 -0500, Randy Kramer wrote: > > This is OT. I tried posting it on > > d-community-offto...@lists.alioth.debian.org but didn't get much > > response, so I thought I'd try here (especially because I did get some > > good help on the other question I asked recently, about invisible cache > > files on /tmp from Flash). > > Maybe because the Yahoo issue is way off-topic even for a chit-chat > mailing list ;-) > > > A number of questions: > > > > Has anyone else noticed the very long URLs that are used (sometimes) on > > news.yahoo.com? > > (...) > > Yes, and Google is also doing something similar. Browsing the web is > getting really annoying. > > > My interests include the following: > > > > * finding a good address to write to yahoo and complain > > http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/news/forms_index.html > > > * finding a way to consistently click on a link and get the page to > > come up with the shorter link > > * and thus, being able to C&P the link to my blog without subsequent > > editing > > * maybe finding a way to modify klipper to automatically truncate > > such links before the first ; > > That's up to Yahoo! not us (users). What you can do is finding the short > like by searching for the news header in Google. > > For instance, this is for the given sample: > > - Header: Things to Watch For at CPAC > > - Google search: > http://www.google.es/search?q=Things+to+Watch+For+at+CPAC&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 >&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:es-ES:official&client=firefox-a > > - Which points to: > http://news.yahoo.com/things-watch-cpac-094500007.html > > > Obviously, I could use a service like tinyurl to create a new smaller > > url, but that is not an acceptable solution to me for a few reasons. > > You can ask Yahoo! if they provide a "permalink" or something like that, at > least for their news pages. They can even have a policy for external > linking or specific tools for webmasters/bloggers to automate the job. > > > (Among them, the url loses any meaning embedded in the original url, and > > now I have to worry about tinyurl going defunct, at which point the > > smaller urls would not work and have no clue to find the original URL. > > (...) > > I neither like URL shortening services. > > 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/201202122043.04688.rhkra...@gmail.com
