I cleaned up a few of the tinyurl.com links last night...I'll try to keep
doing this on a regular basis.

Unless you would prefer I didn't...?

Kevin Horn

On 2/4/07, Christopher Arndt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Florent Aide schrieb:
> > I have one small remark though you are using tinyurl services in the
> > FAQ. What if tiny goes down ?
>
> I had thought about this myself and, incidentally I was using
> http://smurl.name
> instead of tinyurl.com until recently when it had a few hours (days?)
> outage.
>
> But then again, who guarantees that the original Google URLs always stay
> the same?
>
> > Maybe for the FAQ we could just display a shortened url but keep the
> > real one inside our own document. That would be too bad to have tiny
> > disappear and us not being able to put the hands on all these valuable
> > URLs again.
>
> Yeah, but the Google URLs are just so unbelievably huge and ugly. I keep a
> copy
> of all the relevant messages in a special mail folder on my desktop box,
> but of
> course this doesn't help others.
>
> There is also the problem, that ReST does not allow you to have multiple
> links
> with the same link text in the same document. Rather silly, IMHO. (Or
> maybe I
> just haven't read the docs properly?). This means that you can't do the
> following:
>
> Question #001:
>   Please see `this post <http://groups,google.com/akskaska...>`_.
>
> Question #002:
>   Please see `this post <http://groups,google.com/jksaknsa...>`_.
>
> so you either have to invent your own post IDs/names to make the link
> texts
> unique or you show the URL itself in the text:
>
> Question #001:
>   Please see this post: http://groups,google.com/akskaska...
>
> or
>
> Question #001:
>   Please see post `How to do foo`_.
>
> _ ..How to do foo: http://groups,google.com/akskaska...
>
> That's why I chose to use short URLs from tinyurl.com.
>
> Chris
>
> >
>

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