[TxMt] Go Murl Yourself

Brett Terpstra brett at circlesixdesign.com
Tue Nov 7 02:00:15 UTC 2006


Problem is, a lot of mail readers add line breaks on long urls and a  
lot of people that I send urls to can't figure out how to paste them  
back together.  So shortening them to prevent line breaks is kind of  
a must for me.  I would only use it for emails... but I find it very  
useful for that.

Brett

On Nov 6, 2006, at 7:56 PM, Allan Odgaard wrote:

> On 7. Nov 2006, at 02:21, Brett Terpstra wrote:
>
>> A little command that's especially useful for writing emails.
>>
>> [...]
>
> 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.
>
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