Janwillem said:
What do you think is the Good Thing for the _reader_ that comes from posting
such URLs compared to the actual ones?
I tell you what Bad Things come from them: You never know where you will
end up before you clicked; you have to trust the person who posted it that
you will be redirected to a resource that has the capacity to be useful.
Furthermore, the lifetime of the URL's validity is far more limited than
that of the URL redirected to by it (by availability of the redirection
service and availability of the URL ID in their database), so that it is
highly likely this "tiny" URL becomes meaningless in archives. And, last
but not least, it makes it harder or prevents that developers of faulty
NetNews applications recognize the bugs they have produced, and of users
of such applications to recognize that.
The bottom line is that you should not use "tiny URLs" at all.
JFTR: the URL redirected to by the above is
<URL:
http://groups.google.nl/group/comp....st&q=javascript+align+alert+text&rnum=1&hl=nl>
PointedEars