-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Just a little tip..........
- From: The Keyboard Cowboy <KBCowboy@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "T. Hunt" <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 16:32:39 -0500
OK
<chuckle>
It wasn't a mandate forcing anyone to use TinyURL! It was just a nice
easy way to post URLs that will not get screwed up because of line
wrap. For some, this is never a problem because the e-mail program
they use (or the way they look at individual e-mails) leaves the URL
on a single line. For those of us that use multi-pane layouts and
preview features, long URLs are a pain in the tush <G>
Regards from
Bob -- the "Keyboard Cowboy",
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On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 08:20:24 -0500, T. Hunt wrote:
| 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
f
| | | 195239bf6421
| | |
| | | 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
f
| | | 195239bf6421
| | |
| | | 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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