[X4U] Commentary: Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree

[Michael Elliott]

What's all this confusion about tinyurl?  It's a free service that   
just translates a huge URL into a tiny one, which then redirects to  
the orginal, complicated URL, so that nobody has to type a huge URL  
into their web browser.  The "preview" function has nothing to do  
with your web browser.  So what's the point? So that people don't  
have to post huge URLs in Mail and then have to listen to you guys  
whine about how Mail splits the lines and screws up the link.   
(Though I agree about the whining for THAT).


Michael
On Oct 16, 2006, at 8:02 PM, Linda wrote:

> On 10/16/06 7:10 PM, Muckerheide wrote:
>
>> You can turn on “preview” in tinyurl and it will show the URL it  
>> will take you
>> to so you can abort if you want.
>
> That means I can't click the link in the email message, but have to  
> copy it
> and go to tinyurl.com? No thanks. I don't need the burden of the  
> extra steps