On 9/19/2010 11:43 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 06:16:49 -0700, Aahz wrote:
Please don't use tinyurl -- it's opaque and provides zero help to anyone
who might later want to look it up (and also no accessibility if tinyurl
ever goes down). At the very least, include the original URL for
reference.
Do you have something against tinyurl in particular, or would any URL
shortener service also get your ire?
All of them. For mail/news without a 140 char limit, read with a
mail/news reader, there is usually no point to using them. All pain, no
gain. I almost never click on them. (This is quite different from
ephemeral photo storage sites, where the short url is *the* one and only
url.)
Most long urls have a bunch of unneeded garbage at the end. When I
create or search for a tracker issue, resulting url in the browser bar
is about 2/3rds unnecessary stuff. When posting such links, I only cut
and paste the needed part: http://bugs.python.org/issue#### and leave
off the rest. I may also include the title separately. Anyone reading
that can know just what they will find.
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