On 9/16/2017 2:13 AM, gray_wolf wrote:
On 9/15/2017 11:17 PM, PeterN wrote:
On 9/15/2017 10:48 AM, nospam wrote:
In article .com,
Savageduck wrote:

What's the use of getting a tinyurl if one is going to publish
the full
URL?

Because posting the real URL gives you some idea where the tinyURL
will
take
you which usually is long and a bit more discriptive which helps
me decide
where or not I;'ll bother to click the link. It can also give you
an idea
of
whether or not you're going to a spam site or somewhere were you
don't
realy
want to go.

there is no need for tinyurl on usenet or any other place that is not
space-limited, and as you point out, it's a bad idea because you never
know where it might lead.

simply delimiting the url with angle brackets is all that's needed.

The problem being, that even for those of us who use delimiters 100%
of the
time, and use compliant Usenet clients, many times, the URL is
inexpicably
broken.

it's only broken if the software being used is broken.

it's their fault, not the person posting.

Many times that break, even with delimiters, can be compounded as a
thread grows, when responders use a mix of non-compliant Usenet
clients. So
there are times, with long URLs, even when delimiters have been used
properly, that a TinyURL can make life a little less frustrating for
many
viewers. Even if you keep telling individuals that their Usenet
client is
broken, and they should get one that is compliant, they are going to
continue
using whatever is convenient for them. No amount of foot stamping is
going to
change that.

in other words, they knowingly will continue to use broken software
that ****s things up for everyone else. that's obnoxious and rude.


So is not using capital letters, when appropriate.

A killfile works well in a lot of cases.


It is rare that I use a killfile. I have one thread and one individual
in my KF.

--
PeterN