On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 18:56 -0200, Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
> Mohit (Lists) wrote:
> 
> > This is just a polite request to use tinyurl.com for links 
> > that are long.
> > 
> > http://www.sensirion.com/en/01_humidity_sensors/05_humidity_sensor_sht
> > 21/00_humidity_sensor_sht21.htm
> > becomes:
> > http://tinyurl.com/ygfomyl
> 
> This has some advantages, but it also has some disadvantages. The link
> itself doesn't say where you go when you go there, which is a trust
> issue. (Maybe not so important here.) 

Not quite sure why it's ever an issue?

> But more importantly, if at any
> point in time TinyURL should decide to shut the doors, all the
> tinyurl.com links in the archived messages are then dead. Not even the
> web archive can help you then.

IMHO the proper thing to do is include BOTH the original link (bracketed
with <> so MOST email clients will preserve it properly) and also
include a tinyURL version for those clients that don't work properly.

Best of both worlds.

TTYL


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