[Pythonmac-SIG] On posting long urls

[Dethe Elza]

> Using tinyurl isn't very search engine friendly and if tinyurl ever
> goes down then the links are gone...  I only really use tinyurl for
> pathologically long transient URLs, like a mapquest map or  
> something  :)
>
> -bob

It's not an either-or proposition.  You can include the original URL  
for searching, or in case tinyurl goes away, but include a tinyurl to  
the same resource for convenience (and not linebreaking).

--Dethe