[Tfug] How the world does change ...

[Ammon Lauritzen]

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Michael Schultheiss wrote:
> Rich wrote:
>> On Jun 7, 2007, at 5:22 pm, Tim Ottinger wrote:
>>
>>> Might I recommend tinyurl.com for compressing these long URLs so  
>>> that they
>>> don't get bitten off by the reformatter?
>> I'm sure I'm not the only one who prefers to see what the link really  
>> is, otherwise I don't follow 'em. Fixing a wrapped URI hardly takes  
>> any effort at all.
> 
> If you turn on Preview mode on tinyurl.com you can see where the tinyurl
> will take you plus you get the benefit of the short URL

I've been playing around with writing a lightweight, no frills tinyurl
type site off and on for a while now. The default behavior is to show
people the link you're pointing to in stead of automatically forwarding
there.

http://dokono.org

Ammon
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