[IxDA Discuss] Admin query - broken URLs?

pauric radiorental at gmail.com
Mon Jan 29 09:11:04 PST 2007


this is a test of the angle brackets through the ixda server
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http://www.thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/wearejustdoingthistobestupidnowsincethiscangoonforeverandeverandeverbutitstilllookskindaneatinthebrowsereventhoughitsabigwasteoftimeandenergyandhasnorealpointbutwehadtodoitanyways.html
>

On 1/29/07, Miguel Gonzalez <maglez at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
> Better not to use tinyURLs in forums, after a month, I believe, they are
> deleted and won't be of
> any help for those that search throughout the forum later on.
>
> This is a forum for advanced users, mostly, only a few doesn't know yet
> that you have to copy and
> paste the link in a text editor and remove extra returns, yes it's a pain
> but it's even worse to
> do a research and find links that takes you nowhere.
>
> Information on forums should persist.
>
> I use tinyURLs quite a lot but only for things I don't need them to
> persist.
>
>
> Miguel Gonzalez.
>
>
> TinyURLs are good for
> --- Dan Saffer <dan at odannyboy.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > On Jan 29, 2007, at 7:16 AM, Jared M. Spool wrote:
> >
> > > TinyURLs (http://
> > > www.tinyurl.com -- what I probably should've used for this link).
> > >
> >
> > ...except that people have complained about tinyurls in the past,
> > saying they didn't know where they linked to.
> >
> > Dan
> >
> >
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