In article >,
Steve Wertz > wrote:

[makeashorterlink and tinyurl]

>There only catch to using these kinds of sites is that when they
>go down (which they do), hundereds of thousands of links stop
>working with no alternate access to the referenced site.

They could also go away entirely at some point in the
future.

>I simpley put the long URL's in <>'s. Most newsreaders (all)
>won't break the URL's when you do this, especially on the
>receiving end.

That's a good idea, but do please provide the short version as
well. That's what I do -- that way, the short one is there for
convenience and the long one is there for possible future archival
needs.

Why? Well, your claim about "all" newsreaders not breaking URLs
is false. Some of us are still using stone knives and bearskins
from the DOS era -- heck, mine has no idea that a URL is anything
at all special anyway.

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