[Pythonmac-SIG] On posting long urls

[Bob Ippolito]

On May 19, 2005, at 3:38 PM, François Granger wrote:

> Le 19/05/05 12:35, « Jack Nutting » <jnutting at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
>
>> Better yet, use a URL-shortening service like tinyurl.com.  I've got
>> the following javascript snippet in a bookmark in Safari's bookmark
>> bar:
>>
>> javascript:void(location.href='http://tinyurl.com/create.php? 
>> url='+location.hr
>> ef)
>>
>
> Really good tip !

Using tinyurl isn't very search engine friendly and if tinyurl ever  
goes down then the links are gone...  I only really use tinyurl for  
pathologically long transient URLs, like a mapquest map or something  :)

-bob