-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Just a little tip..........
- From: "T. Hunt" <ilrover@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 08:20:24 -0500
I'm with Don, but even more so. I truly don't see the value or the need
for 'shorter links'. I've never found wrapped links to be a problem
and, as Don said, when you click on a 'shorter link', you have no idea
where you're going.
It's kinda' like html in email; it's cute but it's also dangerous, and
totally unnecessary.
Also, there's this, from Bob -- the "Keyboard Cowboy",
">>As an example, lets look at the link:
>>
>>http://www.audiogalaxy.com/satellite/index.php?SID=89eb207ee536f0f730e
>>f195239bf6421
>>
>>Using TinyURL, it becomes:
>>
>>http://tinyurl.com/5ccty
>>
>>The only problem with this is there is no way to recognize what the
>>link is later. To solve this, you can give the link a name - any
>>name
>>you want. To accomplish this, place a space, question mark, and
>>another space between the URL and the description. As an example, a
>>URL would look like -- URL ? NAME-of-URL. Using the TinyURL from
>>this post, it would look like this:
>>
>>http://tinyurl.com/5ccty ? Audiogalaxy's peer-to-peer network "
This is way too much to go through. If I want to post a link, I'll post
the link. The above takes a perfectly good link, easily identifiable,
makes it obscure, and then identifies it again. Back and forth, back
and forth. No thank you, I'll just post the link.
Tom
donelias@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> The thing I don't like about using tunyurl (or one of the
> similar services) is that there is no way to determine
> what the actual site is. I usually want to know what
> the site is because I might recognize it as one I have
> accessed before and had problems with the site or
> maybe it is one I have already thoroughly browsed.
>
> I can very easily reconstruct broken links - or I may
> not even have to if I recognize them. I reconstruct them
> by copying and pasting into (usually) Notepad.
>
> The ideal solution, in my opinion, would be to provide
> both: the full URL (even if broken) and the shorthand
> version. The description noted, if provided, may or may
> not be meaningful to other users.
>
> Maybe for you folks that have high speed on-all-the-time
> connections can use that to find the actual site from the
> tinyurl notation but I would have to fire up my dial up
> connection to do so.
>
> Don
>
> On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:57:57 -0500 The Keyboard Cowboy
> <KBCowboy@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>>Just a little tip..........
>>Hey guys.....just for those who don't know it already, for those long
>>links that invariably cause trouble with wraps, etc., you ought to go
>>to:
>>
>>http://tinyurl.com/
>>
>>As an example, lets look at the link:
>>
>>http://www.audiogalaxy.com/satellite/index.php?SID=89eb207ee536f0f730e
>>f195239bf6421
>>
>>Using TinyURL, it becomes:
>>
>>http://tinyurl.com/5ccty
>>
>>The only problem with this is there is no way to recognize what the
>>link is later. To solve this, you can give the link a name - any
>>name
>>you want. To accomplish this, place a space, question mark, and
>>another space between the URL and the description. As an example, a
>>URL would look like -- URL ? NAME-of-URL. Using the TinyURL from
>>this post, it would look like this:
>>
>>http://tinyurl.com/5ccty ? Audiogalaxy's peer-to-peer network
>>
>> Regards from
>>
>>Bob -- the "Keyboard Cowboy",
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