From: David Paul <davidpaul31@gmail.com>
To: Don Saklad <dsaklad@gnu.org>
Cc: libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org
Subject: Re: What's the best URL shortener?
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 21:00:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGiVFQ+aLvKPHBu5kFEPN6-ehDm0Sn9DoHeBH4CW+rCuiJpKiw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5i1sgfw9zz.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
On 3/20/18, Don Saklad <dsaklad@gnu.org> wrote:
> What's the best URL shortener?
Better question: Should you use a URL shortener at all?
Answer: No. URL shorteners obufuscate the destination of
a link and if the shortening service ever shuts down, all
the shortened URL become dead links to who knows what.
_______________________________________________
libreplanet-discuss mailing list
libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org
https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-23 4:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-20 6:12 What's the best URL shortener? Don Saklad
2018-03-20 11:39 ` Steven D. Brewer
2018-03-20 13:09 ` Thomas Harding
2018-03-20 13:48 ` David Hedlund
2018-03-20 12:44 ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2018-03-20 13:06 ` Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
2018-03-23 2:00 ` David Paul [this message]
2018-03-23 4:58 ` J.B. Nicholson
2018-03-23 11:03 ` Danny Spitzberg
2018-03-23 11:36 ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira
[not found] <mailman.3.1521561601.29766.libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org>
2018-03-20 16:12 ` Tony Chidester
2018-03-20 17:25 ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2018-03-21 19:42 ` libreplanet
2018-03-21 22:08 ` Don Saklad
2018-03-21 23:59 ` C.W. Epema
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=CAGiVFQ+aLvKPHBu5kFEPN6-ehDm0Sn9DoHeBH4CW+rCuiJpKiw@mail.gmail.com \
--to=davidpaul31@gmail.com \
--cc=dsaklad@gnu.org \
--cc=libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).