http://popularmechanics.mondosearch.com/cgi-bin/MsmGo.exe?grab_id=41&EXTRA_ARG=&CFGNAME=MssFind%2Ecfg&host_id=42&page_id=15938048&query=beginners&hiword=BEGINNER+beginners+BEGINNING+BEGINNINGS+
Woo, a bit long isn't it. But, just a little cut & paste will take
care of it, if it warps.
This ought to be posted several times a day. But, on the other
hand, we'd probably still get about the same number of people asking
what tools they should start out with.
JOAT
The highway of fear is the road to defeat.
- Bazooka Joe
JERUSALEM RIDGE http://www.banjer.com/midi/jerridge.mid
Mon, Aug 2, 2004, 4:12am (EDT-3) [email protected] (AArDvarK) advises:
JOAT try this for those giant URLs http://tinyurl.com/ just learned it
myself. Click: http://tinyurl.com/6z76b
In a week or two, they're dead.
Last time I looked at one, turned out to from one of the trolls.
No.
JOAT
The highway of fear is the road to defeat.
- Bazooka Joe
JERUSALEM RIDGE http://www.banjer.com/midi/jerridge.mid
> TinyURL is a bad fix to a non-existant problem.
> Long URL's are written with leading and trailing angle brackets, "<"
> and ">", which prevent them from being word-wrapped in newsreaders.
> When written in this manner, they cut'n'paste into browsers without
> problem. See?
> [giant fake url in blue]
> You can cut and paste the above as easily as you can "Shortname.com".
> As has already been mentioned, "Tiny URL" assigns a _temporary_ URL to
> a real one, thereby voiding the best thing about the internet-- the
> ability to access information for as long as the info resides on a
> server.
> If Al Gore ever makes me king of the internet, I'm banning them and
> forcing people to figure out where their angle brackets are. :)
> Like I said, a bad fix to a non-existant "problem".
Thank you for the great interjection, that does tell me something. But I
just think it is really nifty as a new discovery, it doesn't harm anything,
it works well, and I intend to keep using wherever feasable. No reason
to fight it either.
Alex
AArDvarK wrote:
>
>> TinyURL is a bad fix to a non-existant problem.
>> Long URL's are written with leading and trailing angle brackets, "<"
>> and ">", which prevent them from being word-wrapped in newsreaders.
>> When written in this manner, they cut'n'paste into browsers without
>> problem. See?
>> [giant fake url in blue]
>> You can cut and paste the above as easily as you can "Shortname.com".
>> As has already been mentioned, "Tiny URL" assigns a _temporary_ URL to
>> a real one, thereby voiding the best thing about the internet-- the
>> ability to access information for as long as the info resides on a
>> server.
>> If Al Gore ever makes me king of the internet, I'm banning them and
>> forcing people to figure out where their angle brackets are. :)
>> Like I said, a bad fix to a non-existant "problem".
>
> Thank you for the great interjection, that does tell me something. But I
> just think it is really nifty as a new discovery, it doesn't harm
> anything,
Not until you're googling for information, find exactly the link you need,
and it doesn't work anymore because tinyurl either decided to forget about
it or took their ball and went home.
> it works well, and I intend to keep using wherever feasable. No
> reason to fight it either.
Of course there's "reason to fight it". Probably a losing battle, but one
worth joining.
>
> Alex
--
--John
Reply to jclarke at ae tee tee global dot net
(was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)
On Mon, 2 Aug 2004 04:12:09 -0700, "AArDvarK" <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
>JOAT try this for those giant URLs http://tinyurl.com/ just learned it myself.
>Click: http://tinyurl.com/6z76b
>
>Alex
TinyURL is a bad fix to a non-existant problem.
Long URL's are written with leading and trailing angle brackets, "<"
and ">", which prevent them from being word-wrapped in newsreaders.
When written in this manner, they cut'n'paste into browsers without
problem.
See?
<http://www.bigassedlongnamedwebsiteURLherewhichwouldnormallybewordwrappedifitdidn'thaveanglebracketsleadingandtrailingit.not>
You can cut and paste the above as easily as you can "Shortname.com".
As has already been mentioned, "Tiny URL" assigns a _temporary_ URL to
a real one, thereby voiding the best thing about the internet-- the
ability to access information for as long as the info resides on a
server.
If Al Gore ever makes me king of the internet, I'm banning them and
forcing people to figure out where their angle brackets are. :)
Like I said, a bad fix to a non-existant "problem".
Michael