[Novalug] Administrivia: don't use URL shorteners

Igor Birman igor_birman@yahoo.com
Tue Dec 30 11:42:23 EST 2014


All these are good points, but URL shorteners are awfully convenient.  My former employer, USA TODAY has their own shortened domain, usat.ly and all facebook and twitter links are automatically shortened like this one: http://usat.ly/1kOMnOL
Since Twitter limits you to 140 characters, you can't practically share a long URL.  So, in many cases I think they are perfectly OK to use.
Igor 

     On Tuesday, December 30, 2014 10:40 AM, William Sutton via Novalug <novalug@firemountain.net> wrote:
   

 And besides that, we pretty much know our own government is spying on 
everyone including its citizens and contractors, so why are we worried 
that some foreign government is concerned with obfuscated rickroll URLs? 
I'd be more concerned about replacing my Juniper equipment and locking the 
NSA out....

William Sutton

On Tue, 30 Dec 2014, John Franklin via Novalug wrote:

> Or send a URL via text?
>
> URL shorteners like tinyurl have significant utility value.  What may be better is to set up your own.
>
> A domain name ending in .ly does not necessarily mean the government of Lybia is involved with it.  Nations with certain TLDs, like .ly and .tv,  make money by selling domain names internationally.  Uganda doesn't have the infrastructure to spy on us, so noval.ug may be a fine domain name for us to run our own shortener.
>
> jf
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> On Dec 30, 2014, at 10:12 AM, Zachary Zebrowski via Novalug <novalug@firemountain.net> wrote:
>
>> However, I will still continue to use them.  Ever try to share a Google doc
>> presentation uri to a group where people are mandated to use outlook?
>>
>> On Tuesday, December 30, 2014, Beartooth via Novalug <
>> novalug@firemountain.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 30 Dec 2014, Rich Kulawiec via Novalug wrote:
>>>
>>> There is thus no reason to shorten URLs which are a mere 100 or 200 or
>>>> whatever characters.
>>>>
>>>
>>>        Fine post, for which many thanks, =except= for the sentence above
>>> which is plain silly. Long URLs're a royal pain to get into a browser, and
>>> also expose you to all the other sites through which the original has
>>> passed. Better to take one from the far end, mouse back to the nearest
>>> http, and backspace from there.
>>>
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