On 2010-09-20, Tim Harig <user...@ilthio.net> wrote: > 1. Don't bother to manually paste when you can use something like urlview > to lauch directly.
I don't know that this would actually be better than what I currently do, which is grab text and middle-click in another window. > If you want this behavior by default, you can easily wrap urlview > to automatically add the prefix. True, but since my news reading is not on the machine my web browser is on, it seems like it might get annoying. > I question first whether most tinyurl links are really of such an > intransient nature that they need to be long lasting. I personally use > them most when writing paper notes. They only need to last long enough > for me, or whoever I made the note for, to get back to them. By default, I assume that Usenet posts are for the longer term, and a Usenet post which relies for its content on tinyurl is thus somewhat more vulnerable than one which doesn't. In particular, consider things like archive.org; they may well be able to find a long-dead web page, but not a long-dead tinyurl link. > This is academic as tinyurl addresses cannot be changed; but, it > does point out that simple logic such as two points of failure must be > worse then one isn't always correct. Not always correct, but I think it is in this case. > But why should the rest of us be penalized because you make the choice > not to use (or not take full advantage of) all of the tools that are > available to you? For about the same reason that I should be penalized because someone else wanted things done differently. Which is to say, it's a tradeoff, the right choice to make depends on what your goals are. If you want a piece of information to have maximal longevity, something like tinyurl is probably a bad way to transmit it. If you want something small that survives line wrapping, it's probably a good way. FWIW, the browsers I use automatically Do The Right Thing if you paste in a multiline URL. -s -- Copyright 2010, all wrongs reversed. Peter Seebach / usenet-nos...@seebs.net http://www.seebs.net/log/ <-- lawsuits, religion, and funny pictures http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Game_(Scientology) <-- get educated! I am not speaking for my employer, although they do rent some of my opinions. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
