Claire Petersky wrote:
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The only problem with that being that the tinyurl's expire, so any people
looking at archived posts with google won't be able to use them. Of course
you could post both. And some people might view the expiration as a benefit.

tinyurl claims that they won't expire -- you can decide how much you
believe them. If that is the case, as the service becomes more popular
and used more and more, their URLs will cease to be so tiny.

Doh! I thought they did for some reason. Of course, then there is the
argument about whether the service will exist in five years (fire / flood
/ famine / bankruptcy / overthrow by sentient machines [1]). The
address space expands exponentially with each additional digit, so it
should be compact for quite a while.

Another reason to post both the original URL and the "tiny" one is
that some people are afraid to open, or are blocked from opening,
tinyurls. You may claim the url is a nice little website about
bicycling in the rain, but evilly, you have made a tiny a url about
vegetable worship and ritual sacrifice
(http://www.ebeneezer.net/ritual/vegetable/).

Sigh. No pictures of thousands of carrots in a seething, roaring mass
committing horrible acts of immorality in a demonic orgy? I feel like
I should cry "False Advertising!".

I try to remember to post both.

That's been my practice in the past.

[1] I for one welcome our new Robotic Masters.

--
Dane Jackson - z u v e m b i @ u n i x b i g o t s . o r g
Despising machines to a man,
The Luddites joined up with the Klan,
And ride out by night
In a sheeting of white
To lynch all the robots they can.
-- C. M. and G. A. Maxson