8.04?

[Avi Greenbury]

On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 17:46:30 +0300
"Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:

> >  > So the reference citation is only valid when tinyurl is not performing
> >  > maintanance?
> >
> > No.
> >  The reference citation is only valid while it works. TinyURL are (read: should be) perfectly capable of performing maintenance without bringing all their functionality down.
> 
> I would prefer for my links to work regardless of whether a
> third-party service is down.

Yeah, same here. Unfortunately, there is no such thing as a two-party service on the internet, in general.

> I would expect the people on this list to be able to understand the
> implications of having links go through a third party.

I think most of us do.
I think it's just that there are differences between how various people weigh up the percieved benefits and disadvantages of tinyurl.
I know it's a well-worn statement, but there's not a lot I do on the net that I'd particularly rather wasn't shared with google or whatnot, and for that which I'd like to keep private, SSL exists.

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Avi Greenbury <god at lordandmaker.co.uk>