Re: KansasFest 2008 Report - Saturday

[scott@alfter.DIESPAMMERSDIE.us (Scott Alfter)]

In article <0010c4bb-878e-435f-982a-1f1721115725@t54g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,
Kirk Mitchell  <kirkmitchell@gmail.com> wrote:
>I will find this extraordinarily useful since I frequent the Apple II
>chat on irc.a2central.com but use my GS to get there.  It's a huge
>annoyance when one of the other participants pastes a huge URL,
>wanting to show me something, and then expect me to turn to my G5 to
>type that long thing in.  I've tried to train folks there to use
>tinyurl, but now I don't have to.  A copy in Spectrum, a visit to the
>CDA, and I'll have a nice short URL to type.

Then there are those of us who hate it when people only post redirect URLs
through those services instead of the proper direct link...how do you know
that a link is what the sender says it is, and not something offensive like
goatse.cx or barackobama.com? :-)

If it's only for your own use to pass a link from one box to another,
though...to each his own.

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