Re: an Amazon review I agree with

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Matthew B. Tepper wrote:
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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?

Either or both, as a matter of fact.

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).

Well, since this thread was about an Amazon review, I thought it would be
helpful if that review could be found by the curious reader.

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