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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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