On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 08:51:51 -0800, David Harmon >
wrote:

>On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:55:42 +0100 in rec.food.cooking, "Giusi"
> wrote,
>>http://tinyurl.com/7a2axmy
>>unlike my friend Judy, who is simply a wonderful cokkery teacher near
>>Florence, I am a kitchen Nazi and I don't make gnocchi this way. But she's
>>been doing it for years and teaching it for years and no complaints yet, so
>>have a STAB.
>
>Anything that has to hide behind tinyurl is probably crap.

That comment makes you a newbie.
However when using tinyurl netiquette dictates that one should also
post the full URL.