[PLUG-TALK] TinyURL

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Brent Rieck wrote:

> Keith Lofstrom wrote:
>> This is a reminder to use tinyurl.com
>
> I actually dislike <some synonym for short or small>url.com urls as they 
> obfuscate the actual destination I'm going to.

   Please excuse my naievety, but what's the advantage of a shortened URL?
Since it's easy enough to copy it with the pointy device and slap it in the
browser's address box, I must be missing something important here.

Rich

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