> > Tinyurl does have a preview option where it presents you with the url
> > before going there and asks if you want to continue.

> Probably not so much a trust issue, as a "is it something that interests
> me" issue. The real URL normally gives some more clues about the page
> than the redirection URL.

The preview option will give you that capability.

However, the worst pornographic site I ever stumbled into, some years
ago now, was 1 level above a page critical of the "New Tribes"
Christian mission - wrt their Phillippines work AFAIR. The urls gave
no clues in either case. I found the "New Tribes" article while
searching for something else and read it with interest. It was
extremely hostile to their work - perspectives vary :-). So I decided
to see what sort of site it was on. I trimmed the URL by one level and
pressed enter. It proceeded to open up new windows at a vast rate -
each filled with hardest core porno and animated stuff and ... . After
several seconds of vain Alt-F4'ing I decided that turning off the
power was the best solution. I suspect that the software I am running
now would have stopped the incident - I do not run any sort of porn
filtering per se, but usually have extremely low stumble upon
incidents.



       Russell
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