Eureka! (Re: Comments on Python Redesign)

[Dave Brueck]

On Monday 08 September 2003 12:57 pm, Graham Fawcett wrote:
> Aahz wrote:
> >Many people, me included, won't follow tinyurl links; please provide a
> >standard URL, too.
[snip]
> Thanks for the heads-up re: tinyurl. I realize that some unfriendly folk
> may enjoy sending people to goatse or some similarly unsavoury site; I
> guess I haven't been burned and have enjoyed the brevity of those URLs.

I don't know of any problem with tinyurls - *any* server can provide a "bad" 
redirect; as with any URL whether or not you follow it depends on the context 
and on how much you trust the sender. Maybe Aahz has another reason in mind, 
but I don't know of any reason to stop using them.

-Dave