- From: Noah Slater <nslater@tumbolia.org>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:19:51 +0100
- To: Sam Johnston <samj@samj.net>
- Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, annevk@opera.com
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 02:09:18PM +0200, Sam Johnston wrote: > Not only is linkrot all but eliminated but the links are higher quality/less > opaque (eg http://microsoft.com/win7 rather than http://tinyurl.com/decafbad) > and therefore more secure, plus as everyone's using the same one things like > visited link colouring still works. These "short" links increase link rot. Now instead of relying on a single domain name, and a single host, you are relying on two of each. And as these linking services go off-line, entire swaths of the Web break silently. Best, -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater
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