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

[Michael Winter]

On Oct 16, 2006, at 9:56 PM, Michael Elliott wrote:

> 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.

I agree, its a cool service. The problem is not knowing where that  
redirect is actually taking you -there are malicious web sites out  
there.  I'm one of many who hesitate about clicking a tinyURL.   
Unless I know the person its coming from, or unless its very  
important to me to see, I'll pass on it.

Now that I think of it, maybe including the target domain in the  
tinyURL would be a good feature for the company to add.

-Mike