Re: [slrn] external editor and sorting

On news.software.readers, in
<2quet2-uti.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Whiskers" wrote:

> On 2005-08-18, Alan Connor <zzzzzz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On news.software.readers, in
>> <ww3t059lq96p.dlg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Cool Guy" wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Alan Connor <zzzzzz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> -> 1 http://tinyurl.com/<snip>
>>> That brings me to a page containing pornographic content,
>>> FYI.
>>
>> Oooops! I'll do something about that in the original!
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Good effing grief!
>>
>> My fault, though. Should have checked them out or just put x's
>> there or something.
>>
>>
>> AC
>
> The 'tinyurl' service also has a weakness, in that you are
> taken directly to whatever the link is for with no chance to
> check that you are in fact going to somewhere that looks like
> the poster's alleged link.
>
> I prefer to use this method of posting long URLs: see

><http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=url+shorten&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8>
>or <http://makeashorterlink.com/?C278123AB> -

> makeashorterlink let you see what the long link is and give you
> a chance to stop before going there. By posting the long link
> as well as the short one, people can check that the short one
> is indeed correct.

Thanks, Whiskers. I bookmarked: http://makeashorterlink.com

AC

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