Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 09:41:18 GMT From: T <tberknospamlobal.net> Subject: Re: Vintage SAAB Quiz: What's wrong with this picture?
Shane Almeida wrote: > On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 22:05:00 GMT, Goran Larsson wrote: > >>I didn't continue looking after the first wrong thing -- the url. >>The nospam entity is *evil* and I will never follow any of their >>suspect links. >> >>| Hide your affiliate URLs >>| >>| Are you posting something that you don't want people to know what the >>| URL is because it might give away that it's an affiliate link. Then you >>| can enter a URL into TinyURL, and your affiliate link will be hidden >>| from the visitor, only the nospam.com address and the ending address >>| will be visible to your visitors. >> >>Why should anyone trust these urls after reading this text on nospam.com? > > > Because some people aren't overly paranoid? Long URLs are a hassle, > especially in email and newsgroups where things can be wrapped > unpredictably. Having a nice short URL is convenient because I can copy > it from my text-only news reader and paste it to my browser without > worrying about line breaks messing things up. > > >>Please post plain links so we can have a fair chance of pre-judging the >>contents of the link destination. > > <http://www.pjgh.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/saab/misc/Vintage%20SAAB%20Quiz.jpg> I agree with being troubled by tinyURLs being the only link posted. As I have demonstrated it helps to bracket the URL with corresponding characters, in most cases this will defeat wordwrap. Best to post both if you can be bothered. Thx for the link in the 1st place though, TBerk