Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 19:18:24 GMT From: Paul Halliday <pjghnospamyonder.co.uk> Subject: Re: GM reaffirms committment to Saab...York/Kerkorian renege on hacking off Saab
in article VMOMf.2977$d61.1414nospamdc05, James Sweet at jamessweetnospamail.com wrote on 28/02/2006 02:43: > SG wrote: >> On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:36:28 -0500 >> "Tex" <texnospamm101.org> wrote: >> >> >>> http://tinyurl.com/grlp7 >> Sorry to break it to you, by your "tiny" URL redirects to the same exact URL >> above, so it's not separate. > Um, that's the idea, sometimes the long URLs will get cut off or mangled > by varied message widths, the tiny URL links to the longer one and > prevents this. ... and some people don't like to click Tiny URLs in case it is hiding some malicious website that could bring down the free world :)