Actually bit.ly is a commonly-used source for shortened URLs, similar to tinyurl.com. Of course, these can easily be abused although they are mostly used for legitimate purposes. For more information on shortened URLs, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_shortening 73, Bob N7XY On May 5, 2011, at 3:32 PM, Lew Phelps K6LMP wrote: > The URL itself gives him away as a spammer. ".ly" is the internet country > code for Libya, and the other one he used, ".mp," is from the Northern > Marianas Islands. Emails from unknown parties from such obscure entities are > a huge warning flag. The Nigerian Scam doesn't live oonlly in Nigeria. > > You can check out any country code in a URL by going to: > > http://www.bitmedia.com/cc/url1.htm#m > > (and I guarantee that's a legit URL) > > Lew K6LMP > > > On May 5, 2011, at 12:52 PM, [email protected] wrote: > >> hey , you have got to take a look at this http://r2.bit.ly/mBGNdZ >> >> --- >> Your fortune stateth: Don't you feel more like you do now than you did when >> you came in? >> osama bin laden is dead >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:[email protected] >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html _____ N7XY DX Cluster Node - telnet to n7xy.net, port 7300 ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
