On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 02:04, Daniel Shahaf<d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
> B. Smith-Mannschott wrote on Thu, 3 Sep 2009 at 00:08 +0200:
>> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 23:29, Blair Zajac<blair_at_orcaware.com> wrote:
>> > Jack Repenning wrote:
>> >> Over in http://scplugin.tigris.org, we have a user on a Mac trying to do Subversion in working copies that are mounted from a Windows file server. See this thread:
>> >>
>> >> http://bit.ly/2zuVrN
>> >
>> > Do we need to use the short URLs in mailing list discussions? It's nice in
>> > tweets, but annoying to not know where that link will take you to.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Blair
>>
>> I've used URL shortening myself when the original links are this
>> effing long as these. Mailers do mangle. But, for those fearful of
>> being rickrolled, I've expanded them below:
>>
>
> Don't know about bit.ly, but with tinyurl.com one can use
> http://tinyurl.com/preview.php to see the target URL before
> opening it. (It sets a "preview=1" cookie in your browser.)
>
> Example:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/danp3
Does bit.ly expire links like tinyurl.com does? Real (full) URLs are
valuable for permanence in the archives.
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Received on 2009-09-03 14:29:44 CEST