Well done Howard

"dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers" <[email hidden]> wrote in
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See
<http://www.thisishull.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=136733&command=display
Content&sourceNode=136395&contentPK=9979444>

or

http://tinyurl.com/2uapq

Good letter there, Howard

Yes and fair do's to the paper as well - they've given him a fair crack
there, not like these tiny columns you see tucked away apologising for some
front page headline that later turns out to be totally false.

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Simon Mason
Anlaby
East Yorkshire.
53°44'N 0°26'W™
http://www.simonmason.karoo.net

"dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers" <[email hidden]> wrote in
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See
<http://www.thisishull.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=136733&command=display
Content&sourceNode=136395&contentPK=9979444>

or

http://tinyurl.com/2uapq

Good letter there, Howard

and don't forget my letter in the same issue!

http://makeashorterlink.com/?G19F54158

--
Simon M.

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and don't forget my letter in the same issue!

http://makeashorterlink.com/?G19F54158

I am suitably abashed!
Sorry Simon - most amiss of me. I grovel in apology!

Cheers, helen s

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On Mon, 17 May 2004 11:29:31 +0100, "Simon Mason"
<[email hidden]> wrote (more or less):

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"dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers" <[email hidden]> wrote in
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See
<http://www.thisishull.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=136733&command=display
Content&sourceNode=136395&contentPK=9979444>

or

http://tinyurl.com/2uapq

Good letter there, Howard

and don't forget my letter in the same issue!

http://makeashorterlink.com/?G19F54158

Is it just me, or does ayone lse feel that
makeashorterlink.com really doesn't do what it says on the tin?

qurl.net does do what makeashorterlink.com has on the tin.

(qurl is short for 'quick url' btw.)

Irrelevantly, the guy who wrote qurl.net is a genuinely nice blke too.

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Cheers,
Euan
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Gawnsoft:

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Is it just me, or does ayone lse feel that
makeashorterlink.com really doesn't do what it says on the tin?

All that matters is that the result fits on a single line, which it does.
Other sites Make An Even Shorter Link but that's just showing off.

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qurl.net does do what makeashorterlink.com has on the tin.

I like tinyurl.com myself because it quickly takes you directly to the
destination site with no intermediary 'this link brought to you by' page -
these services are self-advertising anyway.

d.

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Is it just me, or does ayone lse feel that
makeashorterlink.com really doesn't do what it says on the tin?

No, it does exactly what it says. It makes a shorter link. Not a very
short one necessarily, but a shorter one. Short enough to fit on a
line.

Unless by "shorter link" you have something like this in mind:
http://www.cycleweb.co.uk/cntys/sth/sth19.htm .

--
Dave...

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Is it just me, or does ayone lse feel that
makeashorterlink.com really doesn't do what it says on the tin?

No, it does exactly what it says. It makes a shorter link.

Not every time. Feed it a tinyurl link... :-D

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Mark.

Mark Tranchant said:

Dave Kahn said:

Gawnsoft <[email hidden]> wrote
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Is it just me, or does ayone lse feel that
makeashorterlink.com really doesn't do what it says on the tin?

No, it does exactly what it says. It makes a shorter link.

Not every time. Feed it a tinyurl link... :-D

But if you feed tinyurl.com a qurl.net link, it makes a longer link! What
nonsense!

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Simonb <[email hidden]> typed:

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Mark Tranchant said:

Dave Kahn said:

Gawnsoft <[email hidden]> wrote
in message news:<[email hidden]>...

> Is it just me, or does ayone lse feel that
> makeashorterlink.com really doesn't do what it says on the tin?

No, it does exactly what it says. It makes a shorter link.

Not every time. Feed it a tinyurl link... :-D

But if you feed tinyurl.com a qurl.net link, it makes a longer link!
What nonsense!

But that's not saying it's shorter: only that it's short

A