There are the alternatives that Stephen was using, and others Two I've used are:
Bit.ly Goo.gl With so many new URL shortening sites out there, using others besides TinyURL is easy enough. I tend to prefer Goo.gl because it integrates with my other Google services and allows me to track if my students are going to the sites indicated by the links. (Not by individual student, but the raw number of people going through the shortened link.) Paul On Jan 15, 2012, at 11:23 AM, Beth Benoit wrote: > > > > Good sleuthing, Sherlock. Those tiny urls are helpful though. Were you able > to ascertain whether having both a "tiny" and a regular address would work? > Or does putting a "tiny" in there automatically shut you out of Archives? I > say that because, of course, the tiny is often much preferable, especially > when dealing with a tiny screen. > > One more test? > > Beth Benoit > Granite State College > Plymouth State University > New Hampshire > > On Jan 15, 2012 10:53 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Some time ago Mike Palij expressed concern (uncharacteristic but > appreciated) that my posts were not being archived at Mail-Archive. I > looked into it, and, sure enough, he was right. I was not the only > one this happened to, but it seemed to happen more often to me than > to anyone else. My posts were going out to subscribers, but not to > the archive. It was also mysterious that a few of them did get > archived, although most did not. > > It started to drive me nuts. Was it censorship? Were my occasionally > controversial or potty-mouth posts deemed inappropriate for > Mail-Archive? Why me? Or was it a time-of-posting effect, and I just > happened to post more often at peak times when messages were prone to > be lost? I looked into it. > > None of the above, it turns out. The problem is tinyurl. In an effort > to save people the annoyance of having to deal with long url links in > my posts, I routinely run them through the tinyurl web service to > shorten them. Many of my posts contain tinyurls. Of my recent posts, > those which were excluded from the archive contained a tinyurl; those > which made it did not. My tests confirmed this. > > So I can get into the archive as long as I don't use a tinyurl. . > Presumably, this rule holds for others as well. > > I also checked into snipurl, an alternative service for shortening > urls. They're ok. It seems that snipurls are kosher but tinyurls are > not. I have no idea why Mail-Archive hates tinyurls. > > The final test is this post. It does not contain a tinyurl. If it > makes it into the archive, Q.E.D. And Mike P. need worry no more > about my posts. > > Stephen > > -------------------------------------------- > Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. > Professor of Psychology, Emeritus > Bishop's University > Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada > e-mail: sblack at ubishops.ca > --------------------------------------------- > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13105.b9b37cdd198e940b73969ea6ba7aaf72&n=T&l=tips&o=15329 > or send a blank email to > leave-15329-13105.b9b37cdd198e940b73969ea6ba7aa...@fsulist.frostburg.edu > --- > > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13441.4e79e96ebb5671bdb50111f18f263003&n=T&l=tips&o=15330 > > (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) > > or send a blank email to > leave-15330-13441.4e79e96ebb5671bdb50111f18f263...@fsulist.frostburg.edu > > > --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=15332 or send a blank email to leave-15332-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
