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http://www.rediff.com/news/report/pi...d/20170914.htm
or http://tinyurl.com/y77ebxnh -- Regards, Eric Stevens |
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Eric Stevens:
http://www.rediff.com/news/report/pi...ographer-of-th e-year-unveiled/20170914.htm or http://tinyurl.com/y77ebxnh Yes, some excellent pics. The caged tiger, however, doesn't make the cut. Sad to see and all, but it doesn't make the cut. What's the use of getting a tinyurl if one is going to publish the full URL? -- I agree with almost everything that you have said and almost everything that you will say in your entire life. usenet *at* davidillig dawt cawm |
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In article , Davoud
wrote: http://www.rediff.com/news/report/pi...otographer-of- th e-year-unveiled/20170914.htm or http://tinyurl.com/y77ebxnh Yes, some excellent pics. The caged tiger, however, doesn't make the cut. Sad to see and all, but it doesn't make the cut. What's the use of getting a tinyurl if one is going to publish the full URL? because he refuses to delimit them correctly. |
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In article ,
Whisky-dave wrote: What's the use of getting a tinyurl if one is going to publish the full URL? Because posting the real URL gives you some idea where the tinyURL will take you which usually is long and a bit more discriptive which helps me decide where or not I;'ll bother to click the link. It can also give you an idea of whether or not you're going to a spam site or somewhere were you don't realy want to go. there is no need for tinyurl on usenet or any other place that is not space-limited, and as you point out, it's a bad idea because you never know where it might lead. simply delimiting the url with angle brackets is all that's needed. |
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On Sep 15, 2017, nospam wrote
(in ) : In , Whisky-dave wrote: What's the use of getting a tinyurl if one is going to publish the full URL? Because posting the real URL gives you some idea where the tinyURL will take you which usually is long and a bit more discriptive which helps me decide where or not I;'ll bother to click the link. It can also give you an idea of whether or not you're going to a spam site or somewhere were you don't realy want to go. there is no need for tinyurl on usenet or any other place that is not space-limited, and as you point out, it's a bad idea because you never know where it might lead. simply delimiting the url with angle brackets is all that's needed. The problem being, that even for those of us who use delimiters 100% of the time, and use compliant Usenet clients, many times, the URL is inexpicably broken. Many times that break, even with delimiters, can be compounded as a thread grows, when responders use a mix of non-compliant Usenet clients. So there are times, with long URLs, even when delimiters have been used properly, that a TinyURL can make life a little less frustrating for many viewers. Even if you keep telling individuals that their Usenet client is broken, and they should get one that is compliant, they are going to continue using whatever is convenient for them. No amount of foot stamping is going to change that. ....unless you just want to use TinyURLs as an argument ignition point. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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In article .com,
Savageduck wrote: What's the use of getting a tinyurl if one is going to publish the full URL? Because posting the real URL gives you some idea where the tinyURL will take you which usually is long and a bit more discriptive which helps me decide where or not I;'ll bother to click the link. It can also give you an idea of whether or not you're going to a spam site or somewhere were you don't realy want to go. there is no need for tinyurl on usenet or any other place that is not space-limited, and as you point out, it's a bad idea because you never know where it might lead. simply delimiting the url with angle brackets is all that's needed. The problem being, that even for those of us who use delimiters 100% of the time, and use compliant Usenet clients, many times, the URL is inexpicably broken. it's only broken if the software being used is broken. it's their fault, not the person posting. Many times that break, even with delimiters, can be compounded as a thread grows, when responders use a mix of non-compliant Usenet clients. So there are times, with long URLs, even when delimiters have been used properly, that a TinyURL can make life a little less frustrating for many viewers. Even if you keep telling individuals that their Usenet client is broken, and they should get one that is compliant, they are going to continue using whatever is convenient for them. No amount of foot stamping is going to change that. in other words, they knowingly will continue to use broken software that ****s things up for everyone else. that's obnoxious and rude. |
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On 9/15/2017 10:48 AM, nospam wrote:
In article .com, Savageduck wrote: What's the use of getting a tinyurl if one is going to publish the full URL? Because posting the real URL gives you some idea where the tinyURL will take you which usually is long and a bit more discriptive which helps me decide where or not I;'ll bother to click the link. It can also give you an idea of whether or not you're going to a spam site or somewhere were you don't realy want to go. there is no need for tinyurl on usenet or any other place that is not space-limited, and as you point out, it's a bad idea because you never know where it might lead. simply delimiting the url with angle brackets is all that's needed. The problem being, that even for those of us who use delimiters 100% of the time, and use compliant Usenet clients, many times, the URL is inexpicably broken. it's only broken if the software being used is broken. it's their fault, not the person posting. Many times that break, even with delimiters, can be compounded as a thread grows, when responders use a mix of non-compliant Usenet clients. So there are times, with long URLs, even when delimiters have been used properly, that a TinyURL can make life a little less frustrating for many viewers. Even if you keep telling individuals that their Usenet client is broken, and they should get one that is compliant, they are going to continue using whatever is convenient for them. No amount of foot stamping is going to change that. in other words, they knowingly will continue to use broken software that ****s things up for everyone else. that's obnoxious and rude. So is not using capital letters, when appropriate. -- PeterN |
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On 9/15/2017 11:17 PM, PeterN wrote:
On 9/15/2017 10:48 AM, nospam wrote: In article .com, Savageduck wrote: What's the use of getting a tinyurl if one is going to publish the full URL? Because posting the real URL gives you some idea where the tinyURL will take you which usually is long and a bit more discriptive which helps me decide where or not I;'ll bother to click the link. It can also give you an idea of whether or not you're going to a spam site or somewhere were you don't realy want to go. there is no need for tinyurl on usenet or any other place that is not space-limited, and as you point out, it's a bad idea because you never know where it might lead. simply delimiting the url with angle brackets is all that's needed. The problem being, that even for those of us who use delimiters 100% of the time, and use compliant Usenet clients, many times, the URL is inexpicably broken. it's only broken if the software being used is broken. it's their fault, not the person posting. Many times that break, even with delimiters, can be compounded as a thread grows, when responders use a mix of non-compliant Usenet clients. So there are times, with long URLs, even when delimiters have been used properly, that a TinyURL can make life a little less frustrating for many viewers. Even if you keep telling individuals that their Usenet client is broken, and they should get one that is compliant, they are going to continue using whatever is convenient for them. No amount of foot stamping is going to change that. in other words, they knowingly will continue to use broken software that ****s things up for everyone else. that's obnoxious and rude. So is not using capital letters, when appropriate. A killfile works well in a lot of cases. |
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On 9/16/2017 2:13 AM, gray_wolf wrote:
On 9/15/2017 11:17 PM, PeterN wrote: On 9/15/2017 10:48 AM, nospam wrote: In article .com, Savageduck wrote: What's the use of getting a tinyurl if one is going to publish the full URL? Because posting the real URL gives you some idea where the tinyURL will take you which usually is long and a bit more discriptive which helps me decide where or not I;'ll bother to click the link. It can also give you an idea of whether or not you're going to a spam site or somewhere were you don't realy want to go. there is no need for tinyurl on usenet or any other place that is not space-limited, and as you point out, it's a bad idea because you never know where it might lead. simply delimiting the url with angle brackets is all that's needed. The problem being, that even for those of us who use delimiters 100% of the time, and use compliant Usenet clients, many times, the URL is inexpicably broken. it's only broken if the software being used is broken. it's their fault, not the person posting. Many times that break, even with delimiters, can be compounded as a thread grows, when responders use a mix of non-compliant Usenet clients. So there are times, with long URLs, even when delimiters have been used properly, that a TinyURL can make life a little less frustrating for many viewers. Even if you keep telling individuals that their Usenet client is broken, and they should get one that is compliant, they are going to continue using whatever is convenient for them. No amount of foot stamping is going to change that. in other words, they knowingly will continue to use broken software that ****s things up for everyone else. that's obnoxious and rude. So is not using capital letters, when appropriate. A killfile works well in a lot of cases. It is rare that I use a killfile. I have one thread and one individual in my KF. -- PeterN |
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