On 7. Nov 2006, at 02:21, Brett Terpstra wrote:
A little command that's especially useful for writing emails.
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I think shortening URLs like that decrease usability, as most URLs give a strong hint about what they are about, and/or the reader can recognize if he visited the page before, plus you cheat the site for its google rank ;)
IMO much better to use the footnote notation [1] to keep the text clean.
[1] Like shown in this letter.