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• This xrl.us business just doesn't have a future (Score:1)

  by qu1j0t3 (6286)

  Hmm, link shortening services. Let me count the ways they weaken the web:
  * will eventually break (see xrl.us TOS)
  * are another point of failure anyway
  * are a privacy liability
  * give no hint at destination (ph1sh, much?)
  * contain no identifying information, so when they do expire, you're totally hosed
  * are not a permanent, unique identifier
  
  Besides, there's no actual rationale for using them here. URLs can be as long as you wish in this medium.
  • short links do no harm (Score:1)

    by ferreira (5993) on 2006.07.10 12:53 (#48696) Homepage Journal

    P5P summaries also use short links, so that 123-characters-long URLs (like audreyt said) are avoided. These are also used in the summaries as sent to perl5-porters and perl5-summary mailing lists. Both, mailing lists and use.perl are considered transient sources of readable information. In P5P case, the summaries are archived with full URLs at http://dev.perl.org/perl5/list-summaries/ [perl.org] assuring the permanence of these. (Well, as long as the archives themselves they point to survive.)

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