Re: an Amazon review I agree with

Matthew B. Tepper wrote:
"Gerard" <ghen_nospam_driksen@xxxxxxxxxxx> appears to have caused the
following letters to be typed in
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Bob Lombard wrote:

No excuse, sir, but a reason. For some reason I have an antipathy
for 'tinyurl'.

I have too. Because it's not visible where such an "url" points too.

The "preview feature" is Tinyurl is particularly useful in this
respect. Formerly, when one clicked on a Tinyurl, it would resolve
immediately to some other website. This allowed all kinds of
mischief, such as when that idiot wrestler (the one who was caught
shilling on eBay, and got kicked off of same for his trouble) was
forging posts under my name. He would do so and include a Tinyurl
which then directed the reader to photos of Hitler, pornography, or
what have you.

With the preview mode, the reason has the opportunity to review the
true URL and then decide whether or not to click through to it. It
adds a step, and dangerous or annoying URLs are not always
immediately recognizable, but at least this is something.

Is this preview mode always active (once one has used it once)?
Or is this dependent on the "maker" of the tinyurl?



I did a cursory search at Amazon and while I found Hopkinson Smith's
set of the Sonatas and Partitas, the listing contained no reviews.
Even Steven de Mena, whose web search abilities put mine to shame,
could not find those reviews. If somebody would please locate those
reviews and provide a link to them, it would be far more useful than
all of this bickering and whining.


There are so many things more useful than many other things (like babbling about
more useful things).


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