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RE: The Top 10 Best Technical Documentation Sites of 2010
Subject:RE: The Top 10 Best Technical Documentation Sites of 2010 From:Fred Ridder <docudoc -at- hotmail -dot- com> To:<jb527 -at- hotmail -dot- co -dot- uk>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 1 Jul 2010 14:43:35 -0400
Elegant, maybe, but I think that misses the point.
When I see a posting from someone whose name I do not recognize (sorry, Punit...), providing a URI from a link-shortening service with no further information about what site or even what domain that the link will redirect to, I can guarantee you that I will never click the link. Following an anonymized link from an unrecognized source is just asking for trouble even if you have all sorts of anti-malware tools installed on your system. Why go looking for trouble?
-Fred Ridder
> 'www.foobar.com' is simply more elegant than
> 'http://www.fo/ob/ar/06/2010.htm'. It's as much about the horrid and
> rather distracting parsing of the url as plain old 'length'.
>
> On 01/07/10 12:57, Mike Stockman wrote:
> > On Jul 1, 2010, at 7:41 AM, punit shrivastava wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Hi Guyz,
> >> While surfing came across this information. May be some of you might be
> >> interested in knowing this.
> >>
> >> http://ht.ly/235M1
> >>
> > For those who are wondering where the link leads, it goes to<http://www.mindtouch.com/blog/2010/06/23/the-top-10-best-technical-documentation-sites-of-2010/>. It ends up being something of an ad for Mindtouch (paraphrasing: most of those sites don't use our product, but you should!), but contains some information that people may find useful.
> >
> > But this brings up another question: why do people use URL shorteners when space is *not* short? I can see shortening URLs when all you have is 140 characters, but otherwise, what's the point (outside of hiding the destination of the link)? I readily admit I may be missing something...
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