Eureka! (Re: Comments on Python Redesign)

[John J. Lee]

Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> writes:
[...]
> * The tinyurl website can become a bottleneck, preventing people from
>   getting where they want to go.  The tinyurl.com website seems to be fairly
>   unreachable for me at the moment, though this is the first time I've seen
>   this, and it appears to be a problem more with Northwestern's connection
>   to the net than tinyurl.com's.

Apparently not: I can't reach it either.


> * There's no guarantee tiny urls will remain unique or even available for
>   long periods of time.  Their current practice of using four lower-case
>   letters suggests they have space for about 450,000 unique URLs before
>   extending to a fifth letter.

Good practice to give both URLs, I suppose -- easier to cut-n-paste
the tinyurl, but the original one has a better chance of still working
later.


John