Re: long line warning & URLs

[Martin Thornquist <martint@ifi.uio.no>]

[ Niklas Morberg ]

> Another option is to convert the long URIs to shorter ones.
> <URL:http://makeashorterlink.com/about.php> is one available
> service, there might be others.
>
> Disadvantages of this solution is that the service might
> not be available eternally and it also adds a new point of
> failure: if the redirect site goes down you will not be
> able to reach the original link.

A third reason I don't like these services at all is that I like to
see where a link points. Then I can often see if it's a page I know,
among other things.

News articles are more or less eternal due to Google. I have much more
faith that Google is still up and running in ten years than any one of
these shorter link places.


Martin
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