Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 41865
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2/15    [The hell with you and your refusal to shorten URLs to fit 80col.]
        \_ It wasn't my URL but I'm curious: why do you care?
           \_ I like following URLs on motd, but I hate pasting them back
              together when they overflow the line.
              \_ Ok I can see that, but how does deleting them help?
                 \_ helps in improving future behaviour.
                    \_ Here on motd, the principle of free speech doesn't hold
                       a candle to convenience.
              \_ On one hand I agree that pasting URLs together when they
                 overflow the line is a PITA.  On the other hand, I dislike
                 that URL shorteners obfuscate the source of URLs.  Hmm... I
                 think that when I have a spare moment I'm going to build a
                 better url shortener which helps solve the obfuscation
                 problem.  PS Sign your posts -dans
                 \_ This has been suggested many times, but leads to <gasp>
                    urls that aren't actually that short.  I like http://csua.org
                    and http://tinyurl.com ones because they're as fast to type as to
                    paste: i just type "u abc" into my browser and I have
                    a little shortcut thingy and voila!
                    \_ Heh.  I had something a little slicker in mind.  It
                       involves ajax cleverness when shortened urls are posted
                       in web fora, and possibly a Mozilla plugin for places
                       like the motd.  Unfortunately, the Mozilla plugin still
                       creates a chicken/egg problem that I need to solve for
                       this to be truly slick. -dans
                 \_ http://lookleap.com might be useful. Resulting URLs
                    look like this: http://lookleap.com/maps.google.com/a5
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