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Posted by Joe Pfeiffer on August 21, 2005, 2:17 am
> > http://tinyurl.com/834o3
>
> Which is really
> http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT2717739661.html
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> What's this fascination with tinyurl?? How can we tell whether we've
> visited a site before, when only presented with a 5-digit hash?
I'd much rather get a tinyurl than a five-line URL which has somehow
had line breaks inserted along the way, which has wound up with either
back-slasshes or equal-signs in random locations that I have to
recognize and remove by hand. Best is to provide both the real url
and the tinyurl.
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Joseph J. Pfeiffer, Jr., Ph.D. Phone -- (505) 646-1605
Department of Computer Science FAX -- (505) 646-1002
New Mexico State University http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~pfeiffer
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